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Scope and Contents Publication of a pamphlet in R.R. competition; problems with Peter Daniel of Richmond & Petersburg R.R., Sanford, and Felton; R.R. conferences at Chatanooga; control of stock of the Seaboard & Roanoke R.R.; problems of through tickets.

Scope and Contents Urges Edwin Robinson to influence the Governor, Board of Public Works, and legislators against supporting the telegraph lines of Kendall; opposing influence of Bird in Petersburg; against election of Wickham to the Railroad Board of Directors; proxies for stockholders meeting; 3 1/2 percent dividend; Mr. Sharp supervising Railroad rolling stock; all negotiations fro through ticket notes to be handled by Moncure Robinson; article by Moncure Robinson on telegraph in Railroad Journal.

Scope and Contents Mount Vernon Line and the River and Bay Line Steamboat Companies, as opposed to the Piney Point Line of Moncure Robinson, opposing election of Wickham to Railroad Directors, enclosing letter "to the editors of The Whig" opposing a steamboat race.

Scope and Contents Steamboat schedules from Richmond; attempt to buy Seaboard of Roanoke stock at a depressed price; reprimanding Edwin Robinson for changing railroad schedules; a resolution to be presented to the Virginia Legislature; Edwin Robinson is running for the Virginia State.

Scope and Contents Negotiations for mail control renewals, with refusal to take Virginia local mail unless through mail also on their railroad; machinations of Kendall; through ticket negotiations; relations with soon to be opened Louisa Line, the Portsmouth Road and Bird; instructs Edwin Robinson to charge double for corpses and encloses the copy for an advertisement of the Railroad; "am so anxious for the success of your administration that I suggest ... everything that comes in my mind."

Scope and Contents Opposing Bird; reducing the fare on the Piney Point line to meet the fare on the Bay Line; Railroad financing negotiations with Fontaine and "Old Cove."

Scope and Contents Plans for a visit to Richmond to see the Governor and Henshaw; articles to be inserted in the Richmond papers; the health of Charlotte, his wife.

Scope and Contents Mail contracts and problems with the papers of Richmond and the Pennsylvanian and Ledger in Philadelphia; the ill health of his sons, John and Edmund.

Scope and Contents Included a resolution to be presented to the Senate. Competition with stages and steamboats in conveying the mail "we have only to be firm...and the mail must come to us," the opposition of "Old Cove, Mayo Co.," plans to prepare a bill to be presented by Goggin.

Scope and Contents The birth of a fourth son Moncure Robinson and "recent affliction" (death of a daughter); affairs of the steamboat company; through ticket notes.