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Start Over Collection Conway Whittle Papers, 1773/1911, bulk 1801/1867 Date range 1838

Thompson, Mary, Norfolk, Virginia, to Mrs. Frances M. Lewis and Mrs. Mary Neale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilmington, Delaware, and Whittle's Mill, Virginia, 1835/1846 Box 7, Folder 35

Concerning deaths, marriages, and births of various friends; visits from relatives; debt for dress material and shoes; Dr. Ducachet and the seminary; after effects of scarlet fever; passage of Virginia bank bill; courting practices; the painting of miniature portraits by (?) Gumbardelia and (?) Hubert; birth of a daughter to an unmarried slave; "the spirit of democracy which is so rife in the South, is fatal to our youths" Franklin Meyers at Princeton; domestic affairs; church news and the consecration of Mr. Elliot; visiting preachers; continued despair over the banking situation; reports from friends returning from northern travels; general social news.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Conway Whittle Papers, 1773/1911, bulk 1801/1867
  3. Series 1: Papers
  4. Box 7: Correspondence (Sawyer, M.F. - Tiffin, Robert E.)

Whittle, Conway D., "Erin, " Mecklenburg County, Virginia to his cousins, 1825/1874 Box 12, Folder 3

"Cousins" may refer to Conway II, Mrs. Neale, and Mrs. Lewis. Fire set by enslaved persons at Mt. Holly; yellow fever; his chances of practicing in Norfolk with so many doctors having died; railroad lines between Blacks and Whites, Virginia (now Blackstone) and Clarksville, Virginia deplores difference in Northern and Southern women; buying of plantation, "Milbank" comparison of Philadelphia doctors with country doctors; description of Methodists; opinions on right to vote; desire to sell enslaved persons and Black Africans and election of Francis McNeese Whittle as bishop. Includes letter of Fortescue Whittle.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Conway Whittle Papers, 1773/1911, bulk 1801/1867
  3. Series 1: Papers
  4. Box 12: Correspondence (Whittle II, Conway - Whittle, James)

Whittle, Conway D. to Lewis N. Whittle and John S. Whittle, 1836/1879 Box 12, Folder 1

His medical practice, deaths from alcohol in the neighborhood, brother William in Navy; father will never again have married overseer; lawsuit involving Fortescue Whittle; picking of someone's pocket in crowd of Petersburg while listening to Henry Clay; death of Janes (Patterson) Whittle; selling of a slave, his opposition to Virginia Constitution; Reverend Denison and wife are in area; he is Bible agent, she is daughter of John Tyler. Included is a broadside concerning his death. Includes broadside. (Conway D. Whittle, born 1809, fourth son of Fortescue Whittle, older brother of Bishop Whittle of Virginia; M.D.)

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Conway Whittle Papers, 1773/1911, bulk 1801/1867
  3. Series 1: Papers
  4. Box 12: Correspondence (Whittle II, Conway - Whittle, James)

Whittle, Grace, Castle Upton; Muckamore Lodge; Port Stewart; and Antrimm, Ireland, to Conway Whittle, Dublin, Ireland and Mrs. Frances M. Lesis and Mrs. Mary Neale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1818/1854 Box 12, Folder 15

Concerning family affairs and conditions in Ireland; the death of Princess Charlotte; financial situations; description of daily life; children's education; general and social news. Sketch of Grant's Causeway, County Antrim, included (engraving circa 1850).

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Conway Whittle Papers, 1773/1911, bulk 1801/1867
  3. Series 1: Papers
  4. Box 12: Correspondence (Whittle II, Conway - Whittle, James)

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