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Scope and Contents Little Things are best". Addressed to Miss Stott. undated 1 page. "A Present of Doggerele to E.A. Henry, Jr." October 10, 1808. 1 page. "Adams and Liberty." Possibly written soon after the Revolutionary War, but glued on a newspaper dated November 19, 1845. "Ou a Jamais Eater-Suit." About land-case and water-case. November 13, 1859. "Anniversary." Probably written by a woman. September 29, 1869. "Are We Almost There?" Addressed to Mrs. Patsy Holladay. About a girl dying. undated "Hans Breitman's Party." Written in a mix of German and English. Humorous. undated "Hop". Addressed to Miss Philomela Rollo. undated "Shall We Know Each Other There?" About Heaven. undated "Two Pictures." Comparing young and old face of his wife. Written on back of stationery for W.W. Scott, State Law Librarian, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. February 22, 1912. "The Washing Day." undated "Remember Thee …" Partial Poem. Signature could be "M. Lou Bowles." undated "A Memento to the Departed!" January 1852. "From Georgia's Southern…Potomac's Either strand, Where Carolina's Fountains…" …" Possibly from a prisoner of war during the Civil War. Written on the back of an account sheet. undated "As I was going to …town I broke my yoke…" undated "If." Anon. About love. undated "To My Friend." C.H……of Ohio. Washington, D.C. July 10, 1846. "Reader, if ..the hand of envious care…" and "Melphemene! Fair muse to thee…" Two poems on one sheet with different handwriting. "Coroper's Grave." "It is a place where poet's …" undated "Cottage by the Sea." "The Last Rose of Summer." undated "In Virginia." Partial author name, Harry Currault…" undated Poem on one sheet about manufacturers and cars, with a play on words. undated. Handwritten poem "A Damsel burnt for not submitting to Popish Idolatry" by unknown and undated. Handwritten hymn "Come you that fear the Lord." Handwritten music for a "Spanish Hymn."

Scope and Contents Former Location: Tucker Coleman Papers, Box 72. Individual cases are arranged alphabetically, followed by notebooks arranged chronologically, and miscellaneous papers arranged chronologically.

Includes bills of sale, documents, letters, a bond, and an unidentified manuscript.

Includes a boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller; a proclamation by R[obert] E. Lee; and Confederate secret signals.

Copy of a typed transcription, with index, of vestry minutes of St. Patrick Parish, 1755-1774. Bond given by Joseph Bohan to Philemon Holcombe, March 28, 1788. Printed report "Second Report of the Prince Edward Landmark Committee," 1928. Copy of a print of the Union Theological Seminary. Undated. Notes by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse on the prisons in the county. Appeared in the October 1937 William and Mary Quarterly. Notes copied by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse about Mr. Burks's buildings as part of a lawsuit between Woodson and Burks in 1767. Typed carbon copy of Declarations of James Pugh, James Moss, James Wooldridge, Peter Grigg and James Taylor about their participation in the Revolutionary War. Other notes concerning Revolutionary War claims. Correspondence between Dr. Earl Gregg Swem and W.S. Morton. 1936. Notes about Prince Edward County by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton. Mentions Richard Darfson, Peter Legrand, Dr. John Fisher, James Thackson, John Meadley, James Roberts, John Moore, Jr., Abraham Venable, Benjamin Augell, John Le Neve, John Bonds, Charles Anderson, Matthias Flournoy, John Pryor Smith, Charles Smith, Zachariah Leigh, Thomas Yuille and Michael McDearman. Dates covered are from mid to late 1700's. Notes taken in 1936.