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Start Over Collection John Tyler, Jr. Papers, 1800/1928 Date range 1880

2009.148 Addition, 1800/1903

Subseries 2, Acc. 2009.148 Additon. Papers relating to John Tyler, Jr. and his family. The predominant dates are 1860-1885. Correspondents include Letitia C. Tyler Shands, her husband William B. Shands, and Robert Tyler. Among the topics covered are the Civil War, Post Civil War politics, as well as family affairs. Includes poems, poems, military and political notes and documents, Letitia Christian Shands letters, Martha Rochelle Tyler correspondence, newspapers, political and legal documents.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Tyler, Jr. Papers, 1800/1928
  3. Series 3: Additions

Benj[ami]n S. Ewell, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., to General Charles Devens, Attorney General of the United States, n.p., 1880 Box 15, Folder 2

Recommends John Tyler to the office of Attorney General; complimetns Tyler's abilities as a "learned and eloquent writer and speaker, a lawyer of known reputation." 1 p. Cy of ALS.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Tyler, Jr. Papers, 1800/1928
  3. Series 1: John Tyler, Jr. Papers Group A, 1844/1899
  4. Box 15
  5. Folder 2, 1880

Benj[ami]n S. Ewell, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., to General John Tyler, Jr., n.p., 1880 Box 15, Folder 2

Relates the advantage to the Southern states there would have been if there were more men like Tyler who had the courage to affiliate themselves with the Republican party and endure the stamp of "Traitor and Renegade" by their fellow citizens; encloses a letter in support of President Grant in 1872. 6 pp. ALS.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Tyler, Jr. Papers, 1800/1928
  3. Series 1: John Tyler, Jr. Papers Group A, 1844/1899
  4. Box 15
  5. Folder 2, 1880

Benj[amin] S. Ewell, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., to John Sherman, Secretary Treasury, Washington, D.C., 1880 Box 15, Folder 3

Compliments the accomplishments of John Tyler, Jr., describes Tyler's hardships as a result of his becoming Republican; urges Sherman and the party to reward those southern Republicans like Tyler who worked so hard for the cause. 3 pp. Cy of ALS.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. John Tyler, Jr. Papers, 1800/1928
  3. Series 1: John Tyler, Jr. Papers Group A, 1844/1899
  4. Box 15
  5. Folder 3, 1880

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