{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026page=4\u0026view=compact","prev":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026page=3\u0026view=compact","next":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026page=5\u0026view=compact","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026page=138\u0026view=compact"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":4,"next_page":5,"prev_page":3,"total_pages":138,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":30,"total_count":1374,"first_page?":false,"last_page?":false}},"data":[{"id":"vihi_vih00016","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00016#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Abstract: The collection includes correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal records (including materials concerning the treason trial of Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence, 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts; and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family members, prominent medical practitioners, and business associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929, of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933), especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring signatures and letters of prominent American and English literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939), attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice, local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of other Wickham family members","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00016#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00016","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00016","_root_":"vihi_vih00016","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00016","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00016.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945","Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)","5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n boxes)","Collection is open for research.","Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.","The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.","Law practice, 1766-1833; Burr trial, 1806-1807;\n \"East Tuckahoe\" materials; commonplace book;\n miscellany; estate.","Correspondence, 1794-1850; wills of benefactors;\n miscellany.","Diary, 1851-1882; correspondence, 1848-1876;\n accounts, 1860-1897; bonds; Wickham v. Graham materials;\n miscellany; estate.","Account books, bank books, loose accounts, bonds\n and notes.","Civil War materials, 1862-1865; bankruptcy\n materials, 1859-1880; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1846-1850; accounts, 1849-1850;\n estate of John Nicholson, 1842-1851; miscellany;\n estate.","Letters to, 1852-1859; letters of her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, 1821-1831.","Correspondence, 1837-1902; accounts, 1876-1877,\n 1893-1902; \"East Tuckahoe\" materials, 1840-1868;\n bankruptcy materials, 1878-1896; miscellany and\n estate.","Accounts, 1882-1885, 1895-1922 (sporadic),\n 1930-1939; check stub books (2 v.), 1910-1912,\n 1912-1914.","\"Woodside\" materials, 1894-1935; land records,\n 1900-1912","Law practice, 1843-1921; Virginia Senate, 1908;\n Democratic Congressional primary, 1910;\n miscellany.","First Cavalry Regiment material, 1893-1894; secret\n societies, clubs, fraternal orders; general\n miscellany.","Autograph album I, 1769-1887; Aautograph album II,\n 1825-1884","Scrapbook, 1904; newspaper clippings;\n miscellany.","Correspondence, 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888;\n account books (2 vols.), 1878-1883, 1882-1883; check\n stub book, 1882-1884.","Letters to, 1866-1881; accounts, 1882-1884;\n miscellany","Correspondence, 1882-1939","Episcopal High School records; University of\n Virginia; miscellany","Letters, commonplace book, accounts","There are no restrictions.","Abstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Dr. Charles W. Porter and Mrs. Julia Wickham\n Porter, Richmond, Va., in 1986. Accessioned 1 October\n 1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\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 into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWickham Family Papers, 1766-1945 (Mss1 W6326 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Wickham Family Papers, 1766-1945 (Mss1 W6326 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026amp; Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBell \u0026amp; Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026amp; Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw practice, 1766-1833; Burr trial, 1806-1807;\n \"East Tuckahoe\" materials; commonplace book;\n miscellany; estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1794-1850; wills of benefactors;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary, 1851-1882; correspondence, 1848-1876;\n accounts, 1860-1897; bonds; Wickham v. Graham materials;\n miscellany; estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, bank books, loose accounts, bonds\n and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCivil War materials, 1862-1865; bankruptcy\n materials, 1859-1880; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1846-1850; accounts, 1849-1850;\n estate of John Nicholson, 1842-1851; miscellany;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to, 1852-1859; letters of her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, 1821-1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1837-1902; accounts, 1876-1877,\n 1893-1902; \"East Tuckahoe\" materials, 1840-1868;\n bankruptcy materials, 1878-1896; miscellany and\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1882-1885, 1895-1922 (sporadic),\n 1930-1939; check stub books (2 v.), 1910-1912,\n 1912-1914.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Woodside\" materials, 1894-1935; land records,\n 1900-1912\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw practice, 1843-1921; Virginia Senate, 1908;\n Democratic Congressional primary, 1910;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst Cavalry Regiment material, 1893-1894; secret\n societies, clubs, fraternal orders; general\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph album I, 1769-1887; Aautograph album II,\n 1825-1884\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook, 1904; newspaper clippings;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888;\n account books (2 vols.), 1878-1883, 1882-1883; check\n stub book, 1882-1884.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to, 1866-1881; accounts, 1882-1884;\n miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1882-1939\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEpiscopal High School records; University of\n Virginia; miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, commonplace book, accounts\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.","Law practice, 1766-1833; Burr trial, 1806-1807;\n \"East Tuckahoe\" materials; commonplace book;\n miscellany; estate.","Correspondence, 1794-1850; wills of benefactors;\n miscellany.","Diary, 1851-1882; correspondence, 1848-1876;\n accounts, 1860-1897; bonds; Wickham v. Graham materials;\n miscellany; estate.","Account books, bank books, loose accounts, bonds\n and notes.","Civil War materials, 1862-1865; bankruptcy\n materials, 1859-1880; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1846-1850; accounts, 1849-1850;\n estate of John Nicholson, 1842-1851; miscellany;\n estate.","Letters to, 1852-1859; letters of her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, 1821-1831.","Correspondence, 1837-1902; accounts, 1876-1877,\n 1893-1902; \"East Tuckahoe\" materials, 1840-1868;\n bankruptcy materials, 1878-1896; miscellany and\n estate.","Accounts, 1882-1885, 1895-1922 (sporadic),\n 1930-1939; check stub books (2 v.), 1910-1912,\n 1912-1914.","\"Woodside\" materials, 1894-1935; land records,\n 1900-1912","Law practice, 1843-1921; Virginia Senate, 1908;\n Democratic Congressional primary, 1910;\n miscellany.","First Cavalry Regiment material, 1893-1894; secret\n societies, clubs, fraternal orders; general\n miscellany.","Autograph album I, 1769-1887; Aautograph album II,\n 1825-1884","Scrapbook, 1904; newspaper clippings;\n miscellany.","Correspondence, 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888;\n account books (2 vols.), 1878-1883, 1882-1883; check\n stub book, 1882-1884.","Letters to, 1866-1881; accounts, 1882-1884;\n miscellany","Correspondence, 1882-1939","Episcopal High School records; University of\n Virginia; miscellany","Letters, commonplace book, accounts"],"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\"\u003eAbstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members"],"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_vih00016","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00016","_root_":"vihi_vih00016","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00016","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00016.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945","Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)","5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n boxes)","Collection is open for research.","Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.","The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.","Law practice, 1766-1833; Burr trial, 1806-1807;\n \"East Tuckahoe\" materials; commonplace book;\n miscellany; estate.","Correspondence, 1794-1850; wills of benefactors;\n miscellany.","Diary, 1851-1882; correspondence, 1848-1876;\n accounts, 1860-1897; bonds; Wickham v. Graham materials;\n miscellany; estate.","Account books, bank books, loose accounts, bonds\n and notes.","Civil War materials, 1862-1865; bankruptcy\n materials, 1859-1880; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1846-1850; accounts, 1849-1850;\n estate of John Nicholson, 1842-1851; miscellany;\n estate.","Letters to, 1852-1859; letters of her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, 1821-1831.","Correspondence, 1837-1902; accounts, 1876-1877,\n 1893-1902; \"East Tuckahoe\" materials, 1840-1868;\n bankruptcy materials, 1878-1896; miscellany and\n estate.","Accounts, 1882-1885, 1895-1922 (sporadic),\n 1930-1939; check stub books (2 v.), 1910-1912,\n 1912-1914.","\"Woodside\" materials, 1894-1935; land records,\n 1900-1912","Law practice, 1843-1921; Virginia Senate, 1908;\n Democratic Congressional primary, 1910;\n miscellany.","First Cavalry Regiment material, 1893-1894; secret\n societies, clubs, fraternal orders; general\n miscellany.","Autograph album I, 1769-1887; Aautograph album II,\n 1825-1884","Scrapbook, 1904; newspaper clippings;\n miscellany.","Correspondence, 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888;\n account books (2 vols.), 1878-1883, 1882-1883; check\n stub book, 1882-1884.","Letters to, 1866-1881; accounts, 1882-1884;\n miscellany","Correspondence, 1882-1939","Episcopal High School records; University of\n Virginia; miscellany","Letters, commonplace book, accounts","There are no restrictions.","Abstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Dr. Charles W. Porter and Mrs. Julia Wickham\n Porter, Richmond, Va., in 1986. Accessioned 1 October\n 1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\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 into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWickham Family Papers, 1766-1945 (Mss1 W6326 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Wickham Family Papers, 1766-1945 (Mss1 W6326 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026amp; Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBell \u0026amp; Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026amp; Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw practice, 1766-1833; Burr trial, 1806-1807;\n \"East Tuckahoe\" materials; commonplace book;\n miscellany; estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1794-1850; wills of benefactors;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary, 1851-1882; correspondence, 1848-1876;\n accounts, 1860-1897; bonds; Wickham v. Graham materials;\n miscellany; estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, bank books, loose accounts, bonds\n and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCivil War materials, 1862-1865; bankruptcy\n materials, 1859-1880; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1846-1850; accounts, 1849-1850;\n estate of John Nicholson, 1842-1851; miscellany;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to, 1852-1859; letters of her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, 1821-1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1837-1902; accounts, 1876-1877,\n 1893-1902; \"East Tuckahoe\" materials, 1840-1868;\n bankruptcy materials, 1878-1896; miscellany and\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1882-1885, 1895-1922 (sporadic),\n 1930-1939; check stub books (2 v.), 1910-1912,\n 1912-1914.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Woodside\" materials, 1894-1935; land records,\n 1900-1912\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw practice, 1843-1921; Virginia Senate, 1908;\n Democratic Congressional primary, 1910;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst Cavalry Regiment material, 1893-1894; secret\n societies, clubs, fraternal orders; general\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph album I, 1769-1887; Aautograph album II,\n 1825-1884\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook, 1904; newspaper clippings;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888;\n account books (2 vols.), 1878-1883, 1882-1883; check\n stub book, 1882-1884.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to, 1866-1881; accounts, 1882-1884;\n miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1882-1939\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEpiscopal High School records; University of\n Virginia; miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, commonplace book, accounts\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.","Law practice, 1766-1833; Burr trial, 1806-1807;\n \"East Tuckahoe\" materials; commonplace book;\n miscellany; estate.","Correspondence, 1794-1850; wills of benefactors;\n miscellany.","Diary, 1851-1882; correspondence, 1848-1876;\n accounts, 1860-1897; bonds; Wickham v. Graham materials;\n miscellany; estate.","Account books, bank books, loose accounts, bonds\n and notes.","Civil War materials, 1862-1865; bankruptcy\n materials, 1859-1880; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1846-1850; accounts, 1849-1850;\n estate of John Nicholson, 1842-1851; miscellany;\n estate.","Letters to, 1852-1859; letters of her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, 1821-1831.","Correspondence, 1837-1902; accounts, 1876-1877,\n 1893-1902; \"East Tuckahoe\" materials, 1840-1868;\n bankruptcy materials, 1878-1896; miscellany and\n estate.","Accounts, 1882-1885, 1895-1922 (sporadic),\n 1930-1939; check stub books (2 v.), 1910-1912,\n 1912-1914.","\"Woodside\" materials, 1894-1935; land records,\n 1900-1912","Law practice, 1843-1921; Virginia Senate, 1908;\n Democratic Congressional primary, 1910;\n miscellany.","First Cavalry Regiment material, 1893-1894; secret\n societies, clubs, fraternal orders; general\n miscellany.","Autograph album I, 1769-1887; Aautograph album II,\n 1825-1884","Scrapbook, 1904; newspaper clippings;\n miscellany.","Correspondence, 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888;\n account books (2 vols.), 1878-1883, 1882-1883; check\n stub book, 1882-1884.","Letters to, 1866-1881; accounts, 1882-1884;\n miscellany","Correspondence, 1882-1939","Episcopal High School records; University of\n Virginia; miscellany","Letters, commonplace book, accounts"],"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\"\u003eAbstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members"],"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_vih00016"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00023","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00023#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00023#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files, organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883, but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations. There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond home, Virginia House. 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Consulate (Athens, Greece)","United States. Consulate (Calcutta, India)","United States. Consulate (Catania, Italy)","United States. Consulate (Mexico City, Mexico)","United States. Consulate (Zanzibar, Zanzibar)","United States. Department of State","United States. General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The collection is open for research use.","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "," Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. ","Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, ","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.","There are no restrictions.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. ","Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924","Materials in this collection are in\n English . 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":[" Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. "],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va. \u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va. "],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, \u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly."],"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\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. "],"names_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924"],"famname_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy"],"persname_ssim":["Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924"],"language_ssim":["Materials in this collection are in\n English . "],"total_component_count_is":32,"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_vih00023","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00023","_root_":"vihi_vih00023","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00023","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00023.xml","title_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"title_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W4126 b FA2 "],"text":["Mss1 W4126 b FA2 ","Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","American Red Cross","Argentina--Diplomats--United States","Argentina--Foreign relations--United States","Autobiography","Catania (Italy)","Charities--Virginia--Richmond--History--20th century","Copenhagen (Denmark)","Denmark--Foreign relations--United States","Diplomatic and consular service, American","Diplomatic and consular service--United States--History--20th century","Greece--Foreign relations--United States","India--Foreign relations--United States","Italy--Foreign relations--United States","Mexico--Foreign relations--United States","Richmond Community Fund (Richmond, Va.)","Southern Churchman","Spain--Foreign relations--United States","United States. Consulate (Athens, Greece)","United States. Consulate (Calcutta, India)","United States. Consulate (Catania, Italy)","United States. Consulate (Mexico City, Mexico)","United States. Consulate (Zanzibar, Zanzibar)","United States. Department of State","United States. General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The collection is open for research use.","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "," Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. ","Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, ","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.","There are no restrictions.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. ","Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924","Materials in this collection are in\n English . 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":[" Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. "],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va. \u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va. "],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, \u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly."],"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\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. "],"names_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. 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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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The \ncollection primarily consists of a mixture of bound volumes and loose papers, \nall grouped and designated by folder labels and numbers.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-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 \u0026amp; 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 \u0026amp; 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\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_c02_c10"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00023_c02_c06_c01","type":null,"attributes":{"title":"American legation, Copenhagen, Denmark; American Consul, Zanzibar; American Consul, Catania, Italy; American Consul general, Athens, Greece; American Consulate, Calcutta, India; American Consulate, Mexico City, Mexico; Ambassador to Argentina; Ambassador to Spain; and calling cards.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00023_c02_c06_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00023_c02_c06_c01","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00023_c02_c06_c01"],"id":"vihi_vih00023_c02_c06_c01","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00023","_root_":"vihi_vih00023","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00023_c02_c06","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00023_c02_c06","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00023","vihi_vih00023_c02","vihi_vih00023_c02_c06"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00023","vihi_vih00023_c02","vihi_vih00023_c02_c06"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","Series 2. 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","title_ssm":["American legation, Copenhagen, Denmark; American Consul, Zanzibar; American Consul, Catania, Italy; American Consul general, Athens, Greece; American Consulate, Calcutta, India; American Consulate, Mexico City, Mexico; Ambassador to Argentina; Ambassador to Spain; and calling cards."],"title_tesim":["American legation, Copenhagen, Denmark; American Consul, Zanzibar; American Consul, Catania, Italy; American Consul general, Athens, Greece; American Consulate, Calcutta, India; American Consulate, Mexico City, Mexico; Ambassador to Argentina; Ambassador to Spain; and calling cards."],"normalized_title_ssm":["American legation, Copenhagen, Denmark; American Consul, Zanzibar; American Consul, Catania, Italy; American Consul general, Athens, Greece; American Consulate, Calcutta, India; American Consulate, Mexico City, Mexico; Ambassador to Argentina; Ambassador to Spain; and calling cards."],"component_level_isim":[3],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"sort_isi":18,"_nest_path_":"/components#1/components#5/components#0","timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00023","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00023","_root_":"vihi_vih00023","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00023","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00023.xml","title_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"title_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W4126 b FA2 "],"text":["Mss1 W4126 b FA2 ","Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","American Red Cross","Argentina--Diplomats--United States","Argentina--Foreign relations--United States","Autobiography","Catania (Italy)","Charities--Virginia--Richmond--History--20th century","Copenhagen (Denmark)","Denmark--Foreign relations--United States","Diplomatic and consular service, American","Diplomatic and consular service--United States--History--20th century","Greece--Foreign relations--United States","India--Foreign relations--United States","Italy--Foreign relations--United States","Mexico--Foreign relations--United States","Richmond Community Fund (Richmond, Va.)","Southern Churchman","Spain--Foreign relations--United States","United States. 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General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The collection is open for research use.","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "," Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. ","Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, ","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.","There are no restrictions.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. ","Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":[" Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. "],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va. \u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va. "],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, \u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly."],"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\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. "],"names_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. 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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_c14_c03"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c02","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Art Club, \n \n 1901-1918","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c02","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c02"],"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c02","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04","vihi_vih00010_c04_c02"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04","vihi_vih00010_c04_c02"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials"],"text":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials","Art Club, \n \n 1901-1918"],"title_filing_ssi":"Art Club, \n \n 1901-1918","title_ssm":["Art Club, \n \n 1901-1918"],"title_tesim":["Art Club, \n \n 1901-1918"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Art Club, \n \n 1901-1918"],"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":19,"_nest_path_":"/components#3/components#1/components#1","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_c04_c02_c02"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c07","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Art Commission, \n \n 1942-1964","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c07#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c07","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c07"],"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c07","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04","vihi_vih00010_c04_c02"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04","vihi_vih00010_c04_c02"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials"],"text":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials","Art Commission, \n \n 1942-1964"],"title_filing_ssi":"Art Commission, \n \n 1942-1964","title_ssm":["Art Commission, \n \n 1942-1964"],"title_tesim":["Art Commission, \n \n 1942-1964"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Art Commission, \n \n 1942-1964"],"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":24,"_nest_path_":"/components#3/components#1/components#6","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. 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_c04_c02_c07"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c12","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Art notes and articles; art\n invitations, announcements and exhibit\n information; register, \n 1946","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c12#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c12","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c12"],"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02_c12","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c02","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04","vihi_vih00010_c04_c02"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04","vihi_vih00010_c04_c02"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials"],"text":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.2: Art related\n materials","Art notes and articles; art\n invitations, announcements and exhibit\n information; register, \n 1946"],"title_filing_ssi":"Art notes and articles; art\n invitations, announcements and exhibit\n information; register, \n 1946","title_ssm":["Art notes and articles; art\n invitations, announcements and exhibit\n information; register, \n 1946"],"title_tesim":["Art notes and articles; art\n invitations, announcements and exhibit\n information; register, \n 1946"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Art notes and articles; art\n invitations, announcements and exhibit\n information; register, \n 1946"],"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":29,"_nest_path_":"/components#3/components#1/components#11","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. 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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_c04_c02_c12"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00021","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, III. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as one of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth century. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment banking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's principals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its assets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production company operating in Buckingham County. ","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00021","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00021.xml","title_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"title_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n"],"text":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n","Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Slate industry - Virginia - History - 20th century.",".","Collection is open to research.\n","The records of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc. are divided into four series that reflect the overall history of the firm but are strongly focused on \nthe dissolution of the company and the termination of the pension program. 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. 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","There are no restrictions.\n","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","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.","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_title_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_ssim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"geogname_ssm":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"geogname_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"places_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Charles E. Wingo, III, Richmond, Va., in 1997. Accessioned 4 January 2012.\n"],"access_subjects_ssim":["Slate industry - Virginia - History - 20th century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Slate industry - Virginia - History - 20th century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["."],"extent_ssm":["71 folders"],"extent_tesim":["71 folders"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions\n"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research.\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc. are divided into four series that reflect the overall history of the firm but are strongly focused on \nthe dissolution of the company and the termination of the pension program. 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\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["The records of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc. are divided into four series that reflect the overall history of the firm but are strongly focused on \nthe dissolution of the company and the termination of the pension program. 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"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-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 \u0026amp; 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 \u0026amp; 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\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. 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinute 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOf 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCreated 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. 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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.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceeds 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["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. 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","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00021","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00021.xml","title_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"title_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n"],"text":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n","Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Slate industry - Virginia - History - 20th century.",".","Collection is open to research.\n","The records of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc. are divided into four series that reflect the overall history of the firm but are strongly focused on \nthe dissolution of the company and the termination of the pension program. 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. 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","There are no restrictions.\n","Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. 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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","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.","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_title_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_ssim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"geogname_ssm":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"geogname_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"places_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Charles E. 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The \ncollection primarily consists of a mixture of bound volumes and loose papers, \nall grouped and designated by folder labels and numbers.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-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 \u0026amp; 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 \u0026amp; 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\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. 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinute 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOf 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCreated 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. 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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.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceeds 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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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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["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. 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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"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00009","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00009#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The Aubrey N. Brown papers include a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a variety of sources, and some of the organizational records from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern Regional Council). Also included in the collection are materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the collection also includes annual family newsletters generated by Brown.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00009#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00009","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00009","_root_":"vihi_vih00009","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00009","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00009.xml","title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2","Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century.","730 (ca.)\n items.","Collection is open for research.","The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.","Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.","Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).","1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, and misc. documents\n (n.d.)","Correspondence, magazine articles, newspaper\n clippings, Richmond Citizens Advisory Committee.","1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968,\n misc. documents (n.d.).","Misc. documents (1960-1968), news releases, New\n South, publications, reports; Southern Regional Council\n special reports.","Articles, history, memos.","1958-1960, 1962-1963 and n.d.","Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee","Correspondence, planning notes, press release,\n speech.","Conference information, announcements and programs;\n correspondence; discussion guide; discussion guide notes\n (3 folders); expenditures; participants; press releases\n and newspaper clippings; speech (3 folders).","1940's, 1950-1954, 1955-1957, 1958-1959, 1960,1961,\n 1962, 1963 (2 folders), 1964-1965 and 1967, n.d.","1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963,\n 1964, 1966, n.d.","1945-1968, n.d., handwritten notes.","Brown's Bugle, Anno Domini, Aubrey Brown III, Aubrey\n Brown Resume","There are no restrictions.","The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_ssim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Aubrey N. Brown, Jr., Richmond, Va., in 1990.\n Accessioned 17 May 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. 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He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAubrey Neblett Brown Papers, 1944-1995 (Mss1 B8122 a\n FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, 1944-1995 (Mss1 B8122 a\n FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, and misc. documents\n (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, magazine articles, newspaper\n clippings, Richmond Citizens Advisory Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968,\n misc. documents (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisc. documents (1960-1968), news releases, New\n South, publications, reports; Southern Regional Council\n special reports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles, history, memos.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1958-1960, 1962-1963 and n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, planning notes, press release,\n speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConference information, announcements and programs;\n correspondence; discussion guide; discussion guide notes\n (3 folders); expenditures; participants; press releases\n and newspaper clippings; speech (3 folders).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1940's, 1950-1954, 1955-1957, 1958-1959, 1960,1961,\n 1962, 1963 (2 folders), 1964-1965 and 1967, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963,\n 1964, 1966, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1945-1968, n.d., handwritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown's Bugle, Anno Domini, Aubrey Brown III, Aubrey\n Brown Resume\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).","1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, and misc. documents\n (n.d.)","Correspondence, magazine articles, newspaper\n clippings, Richmond Citizens Advisory Committee.","1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968,\n misc. documents (n.d.).","Misc. documents (1960-1968), news releases, New\n South, publications, reports; Southern Regional Council\n special reports.","Articles, history, memos.","1958-1960, 1962-1963 and n.d.","Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee","Correspondence, planning notes, press release,\n speech.","Conference information, announcements and programs;\n correspondence; discussion guide; discussion guide notes\n (3 folders); expenditures; participants; press releases\n and newspaper clippings; speech (3 folders).","1940's, 1950-1954, 1955-1957, 1958-1959, 1960,1961,\n 1962, 1963 (2 folders), 1964-1965 and 1967, n.d.","1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963,\n 1964, 1966, n.d.","1945-1968, n.d., handwritten notes.","Brown's Bugle, Anno Domini, Aubrey Brown III, Aubrey\n Brown Resume"],"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 Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":18,"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_vih00009","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00009","_root_":"vihi_vih00009","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00009","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00009.xml","title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2","Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century.","730 (ca.)\n items.","Collection is open for research.","The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.","Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.","Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).","1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, and misc. documents\n (n.d.)","Correspondence, magazine articles, newspaper\n clippings, Richmond Citizens Advisory Committee.","1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968,\n misc. documents (n.d.).","Misc. documents (1960-1968), news releases, New\n South, publications, reports; Southern Regional Council\n special reports.","Articles, history, memos.","1958-1960, 1962-1963 and n.d.","Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee","Correspondence, planning notes, press release,\n speech.","Conference information, announcements and programs;\n correspondence; discussion guide; discussion guide notes\n (3 folders); expenditures; participants; press releases\n and newspaper clippings; speech (3 folders).","1940's, 1950-1954, 1955-1957, 1958-1959, 1960,1961,\n 1962, 1963 (2 folders), 1964-1965 and 1967, n.d.","1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963,\n 1964, 1966, n.d.","1945-1968, n.d., handwritten notes.","Brown's Bugle, Anno Domini, Aubrey Brown III, Aubrey\n Brown Resume","There are no restrictions.","The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_ssim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Aubrey N. Brown, Jr., Richmond, Va., in 1990.\n Accessioned 17 May 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["730 (ca.)\n items."],"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 Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAubrey Neblett Brown Papers, 1944-1995 (Mss1 B8122 a\n FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, 1944-1995 (Mss1 B8122 a\n FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, and misc. documents\n (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, magazine articles, newspaper\n clippings, Richmond Citizens Advisory Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968,\n misc. documents (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisc. documents (1960-1968), news releases, New\n South, publications, reports; Southern Regional Council\n special reports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles, history, memos.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1958-1960, 1962-1963 and n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, planning notes, press release,\n speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConference information, announcements and programs;\n correspondence; discussion guide; discussion guide notes\n (3 folders); expenditures; participants; press releases\n and newspaper clippings; speech (3 folders).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1940's, 1950-1954, 1955-1957, 1958-1959, 1960,1961,\n 1962, 1963 (2 folders), 1964-1965 and 1967, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963,\n 1964, 1966, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1945-1968, n.d., handwritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown's Bugle, Anno Domini, Aubrey Brown III, Aubrey\n Brown Resume\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).","1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, and misc. documents\n (n.d.)","Correspondence, magazine articles, newspaper\n clippings, Richmond Citizens Advisory Committee.","1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968,\n misc. documents (n.d.).","Misc. documents (1960-1968), news releases, New\n South, publications, reports; Southern Regional Council\n special reports.","Articles, history, memos.","1958-1960, 1962-1963 and n.d.","Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee","Correspondence, planning notes, press release,\n speech.","Conference information, announcements and programs;\n correspondence; discussion guide; discussion guide notes\n (3 folders); expenditures; participants; press releases\n and newspaper clippings; speech (3 folders).","1940's, 1950-1954, 1955-1957, 1958-1959, 1960,1961,\n 1962, 1963 (2 folders), 1964-1965 and 1967, n.d.","1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963,\n 1964, 1966, n.d.","1945-1968, n.d., handwritten notes.","Brown's Bugle, Anno Domini, Aubrey Brown III, Aubrey\n Brown Resume"],"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 Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":18,"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_vih00009"}}],"included":[{"type":"facet","id":"repository_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Repository","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"Virginia Historical Society","value":"Virginia Historical Society","hits":1374},"links":{"remove":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026view=compact"}}]},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/facet/repository_ssim.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026view=compact"}},{"type":"facet","id":"collection_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Collection","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"A Guide to the J. 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