Berkeley Family Papers, 1828-1865.

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Berkeley Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Creator:
Berkeley family.
Abstract:
Family correspondence of the Rev. Parke Farley Berkeley, an Episcopal minister, his sister, Ann Butler (Berkeley) Berkeley, and his wife Mary Eppes (Thweatt) Berkeley; and of Mary B. Thweatt.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Berkeley Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Family correspondence of the Rev. Parke Farley Berkeley, an Episcopal minister, his sister, Ann Butler (Berkeley) Berkeley, and his wife Mary Eppes (Thweatt) Berkeley; and of Mary B. Thweatt. Includes letters from Lewis Minor at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

Letter, 18 February 1835, details a stagecoach ride; letter, 21 December 1844, discusses agricultural meetings and the division and sale of slaves to settle an estate; and letter, 30 August 1862, written by Charles Middleton, describes and justifies his failed suicide attempt.

Postmarked Memphis, Tennessee.

Postmarked Office Tavern, [Amelia County], Virginia.

Letter details a stagecoach ride. Postmarked Nashville, Tennessee.

Postmarked Taylorsville.

Letter discusses agricultural meetings and the division and sale of slaves to settle an estate.

Letter describes and justifies Charles Middleton's failed suicide attempt.

Postmarked Hanover, Virginia, March 8th.

Arrangement:

Collection is arranged chronologically.

Physical description:
25 items.