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Typescript copy of William Henry Edwards' Autobiographical Notes. Edwards was a naturalist from Coalburgh, W. Va. And is best known for his three volume "The Butterflies of North America" (1879-1897). Earlier he had published "Voyage up the Amazon" (1847).

444 letters. Subjects include: coal lands in W. Va., Lepidoptera collection, scientific publications, and research on butterflies.

Entomological notebooks of the famous naturalist and authority on North American butterflies, William Henry Edwards of Coalsburg, West Virginia.

This collection consists of two documents from the Civil War career of Captain William H. Holman, of Holman's Company, Virginia Light Artillery, Confederate States of America (known as the Fluvanna Artillery, No. 1). This collection includes a commission document (dated June 28, 1861), appointing him as a Captain with the 2nd Artillery Regiment and signed by Governor John Letcher, and a military order (dated September 15, 1861) that requires Holman to report to Brigadier General Early.

The records of William J. Flanagan, a Justice of the Peace living in Tucker County, West Virginia, including promissory notes, tax receipts, bills, a release of lien, itemized accounts, grocery orders, surveys and plats, letters, deeds, court orders, summons, agreements, sworn statements, notices, executions, orders to pay, and other miscellaneous papers.

Letter from William Johnson, who at the time represented Barbour County in the Virginia House of Delegates. The letter may be addressed to Colonel Jesse Teter, Esq.; it was sent from Richmond, VA, and dated 1861 March 25. It includes a recounting of recent events in the House, and mentions "the Hamilton Draft", a bill transferring the James River and Kanawha Canal to "the French Company", the activities of the Virginia Secession Convention and the author's concerns about its effectiveness. He also mentions a Mr. Woods, possibly Samuel Woods, the representative to the Convention from Barbour County, as "one of the leading members from the West." There is also a modern handwritten transcription of the letter (undated).

Ledger, 1857-1872, of William J. Pendleton, physician, at Cuckoo, Louisa County, Va. Also includes accounts of a merchant, farms and labor accounts, and memoranda of a school operated by the Pendleton family.