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Start Over Collection Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930 Date range 1886

Letters, Telegrams, Postcards, 1886 Box 3, Folder 14

Letter to William Wilson Galt from T. W. Lester; letters to Mary Blair Galt from mother Mary V. Grigsby, William Wilson Galt, Robert Winthrop, Hallie R. Grier; letter to Mary V. Grigsby from Mary Blair Galt; postcard to Mary Blair Galt from Mary V. Grigsby. Prescription for quinine treatment for William Wilson Galt.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930
  3. Series 1: Galt Family
  4. Galt Family Correspondence
  5. Letters, Telegrams, Postcards

Navy Certificates and Membership, 1878/1914 Box 18

Certificate dated 1878 January 25, appointing William Wilson Galt as Assistant Paymaster of the Navy, signed by Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, and R.W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1881 October 15, appointing William Wilson Galt as Passed Assistant Paymaster with the relative rank of Master, signed by Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, and William H. Hunt, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1893 September 26, appointing William Wilson Galt as Paymaster of the Navy with the relative rank of Lieutenant, signed by Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, and H. A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate, dated 1899 March 3, appointing William Wilson Galt as Paymaster of the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1901 February 19, assigning William Wilson Galt as number one in the Rank of List of Paymasters in the Navy for Extraordinary Heroism, signed by William McKinley, President of the United States, and John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1902 April 10, appointing William Wilson Galt as Pay Inspector of the Navy with the rank of Commander, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate, dated 1903 December 2, appointing William Wilson Galt as Pay Director of the Navy, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and William H. Wood, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate of Membership in the Society of Manila Bay for William Wilson Galt, USS Raleigh, signed by George Dewey, Commodore US Navy, undated. Picture and roster of the members of the Society of Manila Bay who attended the banquet at Admiral Dewey's resident in Washington, DC on 1914 May 1. Photograph is very fragile and rolled. All certificates are loosely rolled.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930
  3. Series 1: Galt Family
  4. William Wilson Galt

Navy - U.S. Naval Academy, 1886 Box 12, Folder 37

Proposed amendment to House Bill #6616, "That after completing the prescribed course of four years' instruction at the Naval Academy ... there shall be retained each year for service in the Navy and Marine Corps...only so many as shall equal the number of vacancies..."

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930
  3. Series 1: Galt Family
  4. William Wilson Galt
  5. Box 12

Printed Material, 1872/1941 Box 17, Folder 4

Includes news clippings; a printed John Knox poem, a program of "The Little Duke" performed in at the Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1879-80; a pamphlet "Ode Commemorating the Entrance of the Hon. Horace Binney on his Ninety-Third Year" dated 1872 January 4 and printed in Norfolk, Virginia; 1939 brochure by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities "Pocahontas Bright Stream Between Two Hills", and two other pamphlets for Jamestown Island, 1941 and undated.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930
  3. Series 3: Grigsby and Galt Families - Unidentified Provenance
  4. Box 17

Printed Material - Ephemera, 1876/1900 Box 16, Folder 33

Broadside announcement of the "Resolutions of Respect in the memory of Judge Wood Bouldin" which were passed at a "meeting of the citizens of Charlotte County, Court Day, November 6th, 1876." Broadsides for farm machinery, "Spring Hill Nursery" in Prospect, Virginia, "Greensboro Nurseries" in Greensboro, North Carolina, tobacco, chemicals, bookstores, kettles, and manure. March 1900 flyer for the Southern Historical Association, price list for plows from "Charles E. Hunter" in Richmond, Virginia; how-to cards from "A.H. Patch" of Clarksville, Tennessee, two copies of Volume II, No. 11, 1891 March 14 "Knowledge, a Weekly Magazine", reprint of "Use and Abuse of the Obstetric Forceps," and flyer with prices from tobacco to groceries for "Sublett & Cary" General Commission Merchants.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930
  3. Series 2: Grigsby Family
  4. Hugh Carrington Grigsby
  5. Box 16

Real Estate - Charlotte County, Virginia, 1736/1890 Box 14, Folder 10

Plats, deeds and related material for land in Charlotte County. Includes a 1736 survey by William Westbrook with notes on "Booker Survey"; 1793 survey for Thomas Read; Edward Fitzgerald deed to Hugh B. Grigsby; 1870 survey of the "Low Grounds of Edgehill" by Thomas F. Petters, correspondence on land bought from the Cardwell Family (1870's and 80's) and more.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930
  3. Series 2: Grigsby Family
  4. Hugh Blair Grigsby
  5. Box 14

Scrapbook and Partial Account Book, 1885/1890 Box 12, Folder 42

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings with notes and poems, some by William Wilson Galt, pasted into an account book. Beginning on page 100, accounts for the estate of Hugh Blair Grigsby and Mary V. Grigsby from 1885-1886. Includes loose papers of handwritten poetry, an 1887 map of Alaska, an 1890 broadside for San Salvador and Guatemala, a printed poem "A Ballad of Manila Bay" by Timothy Wilfred Oakley and other printed material.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930
  3. Series 1: Galt Family
  4. William Wilson Galt
  5. Box 12

Series 5: Mss. Acc. 2011.269 Addition, 1871/1982

Primarily correspondence of Capt. William Wilson Galt with his wife Mary Blair Grigsby Galt and their sons, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and William Richard Galt. Letters are written from California, Charlotte County, Norfolk, and Williamsburg, Virginia. Other letters are between Grigsby family members, particularly to Hugh Carrington Grigsby, the brother of Mary Blair Grigsby Galt. William Wilson Galt's letters are written on while on voyages to California, Mexico, Cyprus, Gibraltar, the Azores, and Italy. One letter is dated 1898 April 30, the day before the Battle of Manila Bay while on board the USS Raleigh which was engaged in the battle. Letters from Eastern Publishing Company, a potential publisher of "The Battle of Manila Bay," who were unable to publish the book. Accounts concerning the estate of Mary Venable Carrington Grigsby, the mother-in-law of William Wilson Galt.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Grigsby-Galt Papers, 1736/1982, bulk 1840/1930

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