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The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library.

This addition to the papers of the Duke familyof Charlottesville, Virginia, consists of twenty-one items, 1836, and 1865-1919, chiefly the correspondence of Colonel Richard Thomas Walker Dukeand his son, Judge Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr.

This addition to the Duke familypapers contains fifty-six items (5 Hollinger boxes, ca. 1.5 linear shelf feet), 1839-1926, chiefly the diaries and reminiscences, entitled "Recollections," of Judge R.T.W. Duke, Jr.(1853-1926) of Charlottesville, Virginia.

This addition to the Duke familypapers consists of five letters and four miscellaneous items pertaining to various members of the Duke familyof Charlottesville, Virginia, ca. 1886-1909, and undated. There are three letters to R. T. W. Duke, Jr., one from Lippincott's Monthly Magazineaccepting three of his poems for publication (1886 Dec 22); another from John F. Slaughterdiscussing his financial affairs (1886 Sep 3); and a third from William R. Dukediscussing the financial affairs of Mrs. [Slaughter] and her desire to take possession of the house in question (1889 Sep 27). Also present is a copy of the poem "Father's Child" by R. T. W. Duke, Jr.and a composition by Jack Duke, his son, entitled "My Experience Camping Out" (1903).