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Start Over Collection Conway Whittle Papers Date range 1847

Conway Whittle Papers 7.75 Linear Feet

Whittle, Conway, 1800-1881

Papers of Conway Whittle II of Norfolk, Va. and of his two sisters, Mary Eliza Whittle Neale and Frances Munford Whittle Lewis.

  1. College of William and Mary

Coxe, Mary R., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mrs. Frances M. Lewis and Mary Neale, Norfolk, Virginia Box 1, Folder 39

Concerning politics, the Anti-Catholic movement in Philadelphia, economic conditions, plans to rebuild the Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Henry Clay's presidential bid, general life in Philadelphia.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Conway Whittle Papers
  3. Series 1: Papers
  4. Box 1: Correspondence (American Ins. Co. - Hamilton, Claudia C.)

Herndon, William Lewis, Naval officer, New York, U. S. Frigate Constellation, U.S.Sch. Madison, Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., to Mrs. Frances M. Lewis Box 2, Folder 6

Concerning voyages of the Constellation in the Mediterranean, tyranny in Portugal, foreign affairs, travels in the Aegean, life on the brig Jefferson, meeting with the French Minister in D. C., Commanding the U. S. schooner Madison, attempts to capture Indians, war with the Indians, his brother-in-law Matthew Fontaine Maury; work at the Observatory in D. C., preparing reports of his expedition, publication and sale of the same, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Conway Whittle Papers
  3. Series 1: Papers
  4. Box 2: Correspondence (Handy, E. J. - Lewis, James)

Herrnon, Anne P. B., Norfolk, to Mrs. Frances M. Lewis and Mrs. Mary Neale Box 2, Folder 7

Concerning social life in Norfolk, politics and elections (clipping re: Conway Whittle enclosed), fitting out of USS Guenier, views on foreign affairs, yellow fever epidemic, opium use by John Tazewell, picking of John Hartwell Cocke's pocket, an elm disease, G. P. R. James, Matthew Fontaine Maury, etc.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Conway Whittle Papers
  3. Series 1: Papers
  4. Box 2: Correspondence (Handy, E. J. - Lewis, James)

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