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Start Over Collection Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers, 1793/2002 Date range 1801
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers, 1793/2002

2 Cubic Feet 6 legal document boxes and one oversize folder.

Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers, 1793-2002, 2 cubic feet, consisting of correspondence about her work with the United Daughters of the Confederacy and many other Southern organizations to preserve the Confederacy. She was also involved with the Democratic Party, Womens' rights and genealogy. There are narratives of family histories and eighteen and nineteenth century papers including slave documents. There are also personal papers, correspondence with other writers and publishers, and drafts of stories and poems by Mrs. Essie Smith. Included are programs from many of the plays and concerts that she attended. Also of interest are letters with her daughter, Mary Cabell Smith, who was working for General Motors Continental in Europe in the 1920's and 1930's.

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Butler and Holland family letters, 1801/1930 0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 2. Box 2 [X030899290], Folder 2

Letters from the Butler and Holland families. Included are a list of slaves called "Names of My Negroes" and other documents from the nineteenth century. There is also a letter from Benjamin Waldo Butler to Celestia Essie Wade Butler's father asking for her hand in marriage in 1891.

  1. Genealogy, 1793/1965

Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers, 1793/2002 2 Cubic Feet 6 legal document boxes and one oversize folder.

Celestia "Essie" Wade Butler Smith papers, 1793-2002, 2 cubic feet, consisting of correspondence about her work with the United Daughters of the Confederacy and many other Southern organizations to preserve the Confederacy. She was also involved with the Democratic Party, Womens' rights and genealogy. There are narratives of family histories and eighteen and nineteenth century papers including slave documents. There are also personal papers, correspondence with other writers and publishers, and drafts of stories and poems by Mrs. Essie Smith. Included are programs from many of the plays and concerts that she attended. Also of interest are letters with her daughter, Mary Cabell Smith, who was working for General Motors Continental in Europe in the 1920's and 1930's.

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