PUBLIC "-//Fairfax County Public Library//TEXT (US::ViF::vif00159::A Guide to the Kate Carper Papers)//EN" "vif00159.xml" A Guide to the Kate Carper Papers, 1861-1976 Kate Carper Papers MSS 06-30 © 2024 Fairfax County Public Library. All rights reserved. Machine-readable finding aid created by Ross Landis, April 14, 2024 Description is in English A Guide to the Kate Carper Papers, 1861-1976 A Collection in The Fairfax County Public Library MSS 06-30

Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library Descriptive Summary Fairfax County Public Library The Kate Carper Papers, 1861-1976 MSS 06-30 .25 linear feet English The Kate Carper Papers collection consists of 0.25 linear feet and spans the years 1861-1976 and contains typescript copies of her diary entries from the Civil War years of 1861-1863, transcripts and photocopies of some correspondence, and a list of events from the later years of 1899-1924. Carper, Catherine Louise (Kate) (1834-1924) Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

Kate Carper Papers, MSS 06-30, Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library

 Acquisition Information

Received as gift from Cordelia G. Sansone, 1976.

 Processing Information

Mark F. Hall, March 2024EAD generated by Ross Landis, 2024

 Historical and Biographical Information

The Civil War diaries of Miss Kate Carper are reproduced from a book belonging to her sister which was in the Civil War collection of Mr. Richard Hammond in 1976. Kate Carper lived at Bloomfield in Dranesville, VA. Bloomfield was named by Frederick Carper in 1824 and was the home of that branch of the Carper family (a branch of the family that built Colvin Run Mill) until 1924. Ms. Carper, the daughter of Frederick and Martha Mead Carper was educated first at Mrs. Edwards School for Girls, and subsequently at Coombe Cottage in Fairfax. Ms. Carper remained unmarried and was involved in running the household in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until her death in 1924.

 Scope and Content

The Kate Carper Papers collection consists of 0.25 linear feet and spans the years 1861-1976 and contains typescript copies of her diary entries from the Civil War years of 1861-1863, transcripts and photocopies of some correspondence, and a list of events from the later years of 1899-1924. It also contains typescript copies of expense records from her home "Bloomfield" for the years 1863-1881 and 1910-1924.

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 Index Terms Archer, Capt. John, 1838-1899 Austin, Georgia, 1842-1869 Bellows, Arnold H., 1884-1957 Carper, Catherine Louise (Kate), 1834-1924 Carper, Thomas, 1831-1891 Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893. Dranesville (Va.) -- History. Fairfax County (Va.) -- History. Fairfax County (Va.) -- History -- 1861-1865, Civil War. Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Fairfax County. Hutchinson, Joshua, 1842-1931 Container List Unnumbered page describing diary and transcriptions of notes from the volume containing the diary, 20 August 1976 Diary. (p. 1-9) (Typescript), 1861-1863 Photocopy of 1863 poem (p. 10), 1863 Index of other items (on pages numbered 10-20) included with diary (p. 11), Undated Letter, Georgia Auston to Kate Carper (p. 12) (Transcript), 1863(?) Letter, Abner Doubleday to Mr. Thomas Carper. (p. 13), 7 September 1863 Letter, Capt. John Archer to __ Carper, (p. 14), 10 September 1865 Letter, Arnold H. Bellows to Joshua Hutchinson (p. 15-18), 30 September 1930 Letter, Arnold H. Bellows (p. 19, this letter contained the poem on p. 10 above), 25 October 1930 Letter, Arnold H. Bellows to widow of Joshua Hutchinson, 2 February 1931 Record of Expenses at Bloomfield (17 pp.) (Typescript), 1863-1881 Record of Expenses at Bloomfield (41 pp.) (Typescript), 1910-1924 Record of Events at Bloomfield (5 pp.) (Typescript), 1899-1924