PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00769::Johnston-Wright Ledgers and Papers)//EN" "ViU00769.sgm" A Guide to the Johnston-Wright Ledgers and PapersJohnston-Wright Ledgers. 38-8Processed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00769::Johnston-Wright Ledgers and Papers)//EN" "ViU00769.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Johnston-Wright Ledgers and Papers A Collection in the Special Collections Department 38-8

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #38-8 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Johnston-Wright Ledgers and Papers 1858-1900 38-8 ca. 625 items English Frank E. Johnston Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Johnston-Wright Ledgers and Papers, Accession 38-8, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

These papers and ledgers were lent to the Library in 1931, and title donated on September 26, 1974, by Frank E. Johnston of North Garden, Virginia.

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Scope and Content

This collection of account books and business papers, containing about 625 items, 1858-1900, originated in Albemarle County, Virginia. Most of these papers concern Robert G. Wrightof North Gardenand James Johnstonof Hardware.

Johnston was postmaster of Hardwareca. 1885-1890, a general merchant dealing in general merchandise, and a miller who operated the Green Mountain Mill. One receipt (April 17, 1875) indicates that he also rented a place called Coles Millfor his milling business. His business papers, 1868-1899, reflect his mercantile activities and his post office business.

James Johnstonapparently ran the store at Hardware, Virginia, for his brother-in-law, Bob Wright, secretary of the Waynesboro Company. Much of the business correspondence for 1890-1891 contains Wright's pleas for Johnston to accept only cash payments for goods, to collect on bad debts, and to furnish him with inventories and orders for goods so that he could meet his own obligations.

The few pieces of personal correspondence, 1873-1892, are chiefly from Johnston's sisters Mollie [?] and Sallie (Johnston) Wright, concerning family matters but they also include a letter from Thomas E. Locke, a minister, about his services and salary (July 14, 1891) and a letter from William Garlandto Joshua Martin(October 31, 1885) concerning the arrival of a "carpetbagger," termed a "Yanke Mahone Emmissary," in the black community.

The miscellaneous papers contain undated poems and an invitation to the graduation exercises of Valley Seminary(1888) at Waynesboro, Virginia. Printed material consists of the by-laws of the Scottsville [Masonic] Lodge(1872) and a catalog of farm machinery (1900).

The account books include: ca. fifty small personal account and memorandum books, chiefly of James Johnston, 1873-1897; ledgers, a journal, and a daybook of Johnston's for the Green Mountain Millin Albemarle County; other ledgers, a journal and a daybook concerning the general store at Hardware; and an account book for "Eldon Plantation" of expenses kept by W. E. Sims.

 Container List Business and Legal Papers 1868-1887 Box 1 Business and Legal Papers 1888-1889 Box 1 Business and Legal Papers 1890 Box 1 Business and Legal Papers 1891-1899 Box 1 Business and Legal Paper n.d. Box 1 Correspondence 1873-1892 Box 1 Miscellaneous 1888 & n.d. Box 1 Printed 1872 & 1900 Box 1 Loose Material Removed from the Bound Volumes 1877-1886 Box 1 Account Book for "Eldon Plantation" expenses kept by W. E. Sims 1868-1871 Box 2 Ledger of James Johnston for Green Mountain Mills, Albemarle County n.d Box 2 Ledgers of James Johnston 1874-1875, & 1890-1897 Box 2 (4 vols.) Account and Memorandum Books, chiefly of James Johnston 1873-1897 Box 2 (50 vols.) Daybook for Green Mountain Mill of James Johnston of "Ground Wheat Records" 1870-1879 Oversize Ledger of [James Johnston] 1858-1868 Oversize Ledger of [James Johnston] 1862-1870 Oversize Ledger of R.G. Wright at Hardware 1880 Oversize Ledger 1890 Oversize Journal with Record of Corn Ground at the [Green Mountain Mill ?] 1881 & 1885-1888 Oversize Daybook of R.G. Wright at Hardware, with an inventory of stock 1877-1878 Oversize Ledger of James Johnston (indexed) 1881-1883 Oversize Ledger of James Johnston 1878-1880 Oversize Ledger of James Johnston for the Green Mountain Mill (wheat books) 1874-1876 Oversize Ledger of James Johnston 1877-1878 Oversize Ledger of James Johnston 1877-1878 Oversize Ledger of James Johnston (indexed) 1872-1874 Oversize Journal of James Johnston with inventory of stock at the Hardware store 1878-1880 Oversize Ledger of [James Johnston] 1879-1886 Oversize