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Flora Baker Hiett Correspondence, 1854/1878 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box

Hiett, Flora Baker, 1844-1949
This collection includes forty-five letters. Majority are written to Flora Hiett Baker of Winchester, Virginia, between 1869-1873, with some being undated. The majority of the letters are written to Flora from family and friends before and after her marriage. Some letters are written from her future husband, Joseph Hiett. There are five letters from 1867-1869 from Flora to her Joseph Hiett before their marriage. The collection includes some letter fragments. There are three letters to and from individuals who have an unknown affiliation with Flora.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Hicks Family Papers, 1856/1938 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Robert W. Hicks family (Campbell County, Va.)
This collection includes bills and receipts relating to monetary transactions made by the R. W. Hicks family of Campbell County, Virginia. It also contains records of the family's business transactions, affiliations, and interests, as well as legal, business and personal correspondence.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Huff-Hylton Families Papers, 1803/1975 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box

Hylton, Lorenzo Dow, 1830-1864
The Huff-Hylton Families Papers consists of items from the early 1800s through the American Civil War pertaining to the business and personal lives of Samuel Huff, Lorenzo Dow Hylton, and their families in Montgomery (now Floyd) County, Virginia. Materials include promissory notes, correspondence, an indenture for land, and genealogical information.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Letters to Ann Eliza Eddy, 1857/1881 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Colville, James W., Captain
The collection comprises letters to Ann Eliza Eddy, living in Troy, New York, dating from 1857-1865. Eddy received letters from Union soldiers, cousins, and friends over the course of the American Civil War. There are several photographs of the house and writers included in the collection.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Lincoln-Look Family Papers, 1844/1930 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Look, Sarah A(nn). B(urt). Lincoln
This collection contains the correspondence of Nathan L. (1819-1909) and Sarah A. B. Lincoln Look (1826-1857), who settled in Virginia in the 1840s and lived in Loudoun, Botetourt, Montgomery, and Smyth counties. There is also correspondence with other members of the Lincoln and Look families in Massachusetts and New York; together with transcripts and summaries of the letters; and a few pieces of miscellanea.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers, 1865/1973 0.9 Cubic Feet 2 boxes, 2 oversize folders

Urquhart, Lucy Dickinson, 1881-1975
The Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers, 1865-1973, contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, and poetry and advertisements by Lucy Dickinson Urquhart (1881-1975), an advertising copywriter and local historian in Virginia. The collection also includes correspondence, papers, and other materials related to her family.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Martha L. Johnson Family Papers, 1821/1882 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Martha L. Johnson family

This collection contains the papers of the family of Martha L. Robinson Johnson, nineteenth-century matriarch of a Carroll County, Virginia family. The collection consists largely of correspondence to Johnson from various family members and friends, providing a chronicle of the life of a Southwest Virginia family during the mid-nineteenth century, mostly from a feminine perspective. The letters focus on childbirth, death, illness, folk medicine, fashion, sewing, knitting, quilting, gardening, food, spirituality and the Civil War. The letters were mailed from various locales--mostly in Virginia--including Hillsville, Copper Mines, Orange Court House, Lynchburg, Texas House, Chatham Hill, Coal Hill, Warm Springs, Red Sulphur Springs, Spring Valley, Grayson County, Cove and Hickory Grove. Though the majority of the correspondence is addressed to Martha Johnson, the collection also contains correspondence to and from her husband, Robert C. Johnson, a Carroll County tavern keeper, postmaster and commissioner of revenue.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mary Coley Letters, 1851/1876 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Coley, Mary
Letters addressed to Mary Everit Coley of New Haven, Connecticut, from relatives and friends, focusing on personal activities and news, particularly illnesses and deaths, including the deaths of three infant children of Coley's friend, Isabelle Mercein Fuller.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Moore Family Papers, 1847/1948 1.4 Cubic Feet 1 box

Moore family
A collection of photographs, correspondence, and other documents created by members of the Moore family spans three generations between 1847 and 1948. Most of this collection is comprised of letters that relate family news.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Pauline E. Burks Family Papers, 1763/1985 9 Cubic Feet 15 boxes, 4 oversize folders

Broaddus family (Amherst County, Va.)
Pauline E. Burks of Richmond, Virginia, collected genealogy materials about her husband Broaddus Vaughan Burks' family. The papers include correspondence, account books, essays, receipts, newspapers, and plats and surveys of the Broaddus, Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia. Materials focus mainly on the Vaughan and Burks families and range from 1760s land grants to 1970s family correspondence.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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