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      <titleproper>Inventory of the Alexander Brown Papers (1) 
         <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1815-1910</date></titleproper>
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         <lb/>Manuscripts and Rare Books Department 
         <num type="Collection Number">Mss. Acc. 65
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    <runner placement="footer">Special Collections, College of
      William and Mary</runner>
    <did>
      <head>Descriptive Summary</head>
      <repository>Special Collections, College of William and
         Mary</repository>
      <unittitle label="Title">Alexander Brown Papers (1), 
         <unitdate type="inclusive" label="Date" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
         1815-1910.</unitdate></unittitle>
      <unitid label="Collection number">Mss. Acc. 65 B83</unitid>
      <physdesc label="Extent">2,949 items.</physdesc>
      <langmaterial label="Language">
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
      </langmaterial>
      <abstract label="Abstract">Inventory includes the letters and
         business papers,1815-1910, of Alexander Brown (1843-1906),
         farmer, merchant and author who lived in Nelson County,
         Virginia.</abstract>
      <origination label="Creator">
        <persname>Alexander Brown</persname>
      </origination>
    </did>
    <descgrp type="admininfo">
      <head>Administrative Information</head>
      <accessrestrict>
        <head>Restrictions on Access</head>
        <p>Collection is open to all researchers.</p>
      </accessrestrict>
      <userestrict>
        <head>Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use</head>
        <p>Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any
            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of
            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the
            copyright, if not Swem Library.</p>
      </userestrict>
      <prefercite>
        <head>Preferred Citation</head>
        <p>Alexander Brown Papers (1), 1815-1910, Manuscripts and
            Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and
            Mary.</p>
      </prefercite>
      <acqinfo>
        <head>Acquisition Information</head>
        <p>Purchased: 2,914 items, 
            <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">05/06/1941.</date><lb/>Gift: 5 items, 
            <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">05/22/1944.</date><lb/>Gift: 30 items, 
            <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">05/09/1946.</date><lb/></p>
      </acqinfo>
    </descgrp>
    <bioghist>
      <head>Biographical Information</head>
      <p>Born at Glenwood, Nelson County, Virginia, Alexander Brown
         was deafened while serving in the Confederate Army in the
         explosion of a powder-boat near Fort Fisher, N.C. He married
         Caroline Augusta Cabell and after her death, Sarah Randolph
         Cabell. He was the author of 
         <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Genesis of the United
         States,</title><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The First Republic in America,</title><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Cabells and Their Kin</title>and
         other works.</p>
    </bioghist>
    <scopecontent>
      <head>Scope and Content Information</head>
      <p>Inventory contains the papers of Alexander Brown, farmer,
         merchant and author who lived in Nelson County, Virginia.
         Includes correspondence relating to his books, 
         <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Genesis of the United
         States,</title><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The First Republic in America,</title><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Cabells and Their Kin</title>and 
         <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">New Views,</title>and other
         correspondence and business papers of Brown including letters
         written from Australia, England, Wales and Egypt, 1867-1869.
         Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Jabez Lamar
         Monroe Curry, Charles Deane, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler.</p>
      <p>The collection also includes papers of Mayo Cabell and
         ledgers of Mayo Cabell and Co., Lynchburg, Virginia and of the
         Lynchburg Female Seminary; accounts of "Belmont," "Benvenue,"
         and "Norwood" plantations (in Nelson County); and genealogical
         material on the Brown and Cabell families.</p>
    </scopecontent>
    <arrangement>
      <head>Organization</head>
      <p>This inventory has been organized into ten series: 1.
         Correspondence of Alexander Brown; 2. Business Reciepts of
         Alexander Brown; 3. Business Reciepts and Papers of Various
         Members of the Cabell Family; 4. Papers of Mayo Cabell; 5.
         Papers concerning the books written by Alexander Brown; 6.
         Bills, Reciepts and Papers of Mayo Cabell and His Son; 7.
         Correspondence of Alexander Brown; 8. Miscellaneous Materials
         of Alexander Brown; 9. Papers of R. L. Brown, the son of
         Alexander Brown; 10. Page Proofs of the Books Written by
         Alexander Brown.</p>
    </arrangement>
    <descgrp type="add">
      <head>Additional Related or Separated Material</head>
      <relatedmaterial>
        <head>Related Material</head>
        <p>Letters, 1885-1890, from William Cabell, England, to
            Alexander Brown, are located in the Cabell-Brown Collection
            within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem
            Library</p>
        <p>
          <archref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="">Cabell-Brown Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books
            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. 
            <unittitle>Cabell-Brown Papers, 
            <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
            1885-1890.</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>12 items.</physdesc><unitid>Collection number: Mss. Sm Coll
            Cabell-Brown</unitid></archref>
        </p>
      </relatedmaterial>
      <separatedmaterial>
        <head>Separated Material</head>
        <p>The letters of Alexander Brown have been separated into
            another inventory located within Manuscripts and Rare Books
            Department, Swem Library</p>
        <p>
          <archref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="">Alexander Brown Papers (II), 1748-1900,
            Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library,
            College of William and Mary. 
            <unittitle>Alexander Brown Papers (II), 
            <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1748-1900.</unitdate></unittitle><unitid>Collection number: Mss. 65 B86</unitid></archref>
        </p>
      </separatedmaterial>
      <separatedmaterial>
        <head>Microfilm</head>
        <p>The letters from Alexander Brown to Charles Deane are
            located within this collection on microfilm only. The
            originals are in the Massachusetts Historical Society.</p>
        <p>
          <archref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="">Alexander Brown Papers (1), 1815-1910, Manuscripts
            and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William
            and Mary. 
            <unittitle label="Title">Alexander Brown Papers (1), 
            <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
            1815-1910.</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>112 items.</physdesc><unitid label="Collection number">Collection number: Mss.
            Acc.65 B83 microfilm cabinet, drawer 3</unitid></archref>
        </p>
      </separatedmaterial>
    </descgrp>
    <controlaccess>
      <head>Index Terms</head>
      <controlaccess>
        <head>Family Names:</head>
        <famname encodinganalog="630 730">Brown family</famname>
        <famname>Cable family</famname>
      </controlaccess>
      <controlaccess>
        <head>Persons:</head>
        <persname encodinganalog="610 710">Adams, Herbert Baxter,
            1850-1901.</persname>
        <persname>Cabell, Mayo.</persname>
        <persname>Curry, J. L. M. (Jabez Lamar Monroe), 1825-
            1903.</persname>
        <persname>Deane, Charles, 1813- 1889.</persname>
        <persname>Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935.</persname>
      </controlaccess>
      <controlaccess>
        <head>Subjects:</head>
        <subject encodinganalog="650">
            Education--History--Virginia.</subject>
        <subject>Merchants--Virginia--Lynchburg.</subject>
        <subject>Merchants--Virginia--History--19th
            century.</subject>
        <subject>Plantations--Virginia-- Nelson County.</subject>
        <subject>Women--Education--Virginia.</subject>
      </controlaccess>
      <controlaccess>
        <head>Corporate Names:</head>
        <corpname>Lynchburg Female Seminary.</corpname>
        <corpname>Mayo Cabell and Co. (Lynchburg, Va.)</corpname>
      </controlaccess>
      <controlaccess>
        <head>Geographical Names:</head>
        <geogname encodinganalog="651">Nelson County
            (Va.)--History--19th century.</geogname>
        <geogname>Lynchburg (Va.)-- History--19th
            century.</geogname>
        <geogname>Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca.
            1600-1775.</geogname>
      </controlaccess>
    </controlaccess>
    <dsc type="combined">
      <head>Components List</head>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 1: Correspondence of Alexander Brown</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Correspondence of Alexander Brown. 
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian"/></unittitle>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Items that dealt with, related to or concerned
               Alexander Brown and the Brown family.</p>
        </scopecontent>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Samuel S. Early's correspondence, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1882-1883.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:1-3</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>These letters deal with the history of the Early
                  family in Virginia and the coats of arms of Capt.
                  John Smith, with several colored sketches.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Notification from the American Historical
                  Association, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">18 Oct. 1884, and 16 Nov.
                  1897.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:4</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Notification of Brown's having been elected a
                  member of the American Historical Association, signed
                  by Herbert Baxter Adams.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Correspondence to Brown from Houghton,
                  Mifflin and Co., 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">Aug. 1895 - 20 Nov.
                  1895.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:4</container>
            <physdesc>
              <extent>3 items.</extent>
            </physdesc>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Items concern the publication of his book 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Cabells and Their
                  Kin.</title></p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Correspondence with Houghton, Mifflin and
                  Co., 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">25 June 1889 - 30 June
                  1891.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:5</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Correspondence with Houghton, Mifflin and
                  Co., 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">15 July 1891 - 1 April
                  1895.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:6</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Correspondence with Houghton, Mifflin and
                  Co., 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">26 April 1895 - 14 Feb.
                  1898.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:7</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from various people, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1876-1885.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:8</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from C.H. Bergner.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:8</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from D.R. Barton.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:8</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Wood Bouldin.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:8</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from S.A. Brock, Frank
                  Leslie's Publishing House, New York, NY., 
                  <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1875.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:9</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from his uncle Andrew
                  Brown, Cooerwull, Bowenfells, Sydney, Australia, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1867-1884.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:10</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from his uncle Andrew
                  Brown, Cooerwull, Bowenfells, Sydney, Australia, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1885-1894.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:11</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from his cousin Charles
                  Bruce, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1875-1876.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:12</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from his sister Cornelia,
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  n.d.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:13</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from Mrs. M.B. Brown, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1876.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:14</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Items concern the occasion of the death of his
                  wife.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from various
                  people.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:15</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from T.S. Brown, Wales and
                     Luxor, Egypt, 
                     <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1896.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:15</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Grace F. Brown, 
                     <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1886.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:15</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from J. Thompson Brown, 
                     <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1876.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:15</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from M.B. Brown, 
                     <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">n.d.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:15</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from his father, R.L Brown, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1874 -
                     1876.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:15</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from W.F. Butler, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1876.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:15</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from W. Cabell in
                  England, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1883-1884.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:16</container>
            <physdesc>Postcards.</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from Decatur Axtell,
                  Richmond and Allegheny Railroad Company, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1884-1887.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:17</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Items concern Brown's claim against the
                  company.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from Decatur Axtell, C.T.
                  Dabney, and T.C. Eggleston, Chesapeake and Ohio
                  Railway Company, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1889.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:18</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Items concern Brown's claim against the company
                  for damages inflicted on his property during the
                  floods of 1 June and after.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from correspondents whose
                  names begin with C, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  n.d.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:19</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Some correspondents include Charles Washington
                  Coleman, 20 Feb. 1896, notifying Brown of his
                  election to Phi Beta Kappa; C.B. Clawborne; Fanny
                  Cook; Joseph Cohn; Margaret C. Cabell, N.F. Cabell;
                  and P.H. Cabell.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle label="Subseries">Letters to Brown from
                  various individuals.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:20</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from William D. Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1865-1876.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:20</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Paul C.
                     Callaway.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:20</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from J.L. Campbell.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:20</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from W.C.
                     Carrington.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:20</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown serving in the
                  Confederate Army, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1861-1866.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:21</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>There is an afterwards from his grandmother Eliza
                  Callaway.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle label="Subseries">Letters to Brown from
                  various individuals. 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian"/></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:22</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Henry Dreer.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:22</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Dornin &amp;
                     Waldron.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:22</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from G.A. Diuguid, an
                     undertaker.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:22</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from John Dildine.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:22</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from John W.
                     Daniel.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:22</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle label="Subseries">Letters to Brown from
                  various individuals.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:23</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from T. Davis Evans, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1885-1886.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:23</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from M.K. Estes, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1875-1876.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:23</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from J.J. English.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:23</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Charles Ellis.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:23</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from J.C. Echard.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:23</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from A.L. Edward.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:23</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from C.H. Early.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:23</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Henry H.
                     Eames.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:23</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle label="Subseries">Letters to Brown from
                  various individuals.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:24</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Thomas P. Kilpatrick, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1876-1881.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:24</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from J.N. Gordon.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:24</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from James Harvey.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:24</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from William W.
                     Hill.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:24</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Charles L.
                     Hill.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:24</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from R.A. Coghill.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:24</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Wm.L. Akers.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:24</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from J.D. Horsley, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1893-1898.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:24</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters to Brown from various
                  individuals.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:25</container>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Richard Irby.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:25</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Lee, Seddon &amp;
                     Co.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:25</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Lily M.
                     Pleasants.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:25</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Daughters of the American
                     Revolution.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:25</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters that were unsigned.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:25</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photostats of letters and other items, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1887-1889.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1:26</container>
            <physdesc><extent>5 letters.</extent>Photosats.</physdesc>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from J.L.M. (Jabez Lamar
                     Monroe) Curry to Alexander Brown.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:26</container>
              <physdesc>Photostat.</physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Items concern copies of letters which Brown had
                     ordered.</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letter from Brown to Clarence W.
                     Bowen.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:26</container>
              <physdesc>Photostat.</physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Items concern dues to the American Historical
                     Association, enclosed in the letter.</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Unidentified portrait.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     1:26</container>
              <physdesc>Photostat.</physdesc>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Microfilmed letters from Alexander Brown
                  to Charles Deane.</unittitle>
            <physloc>Microfilm Cabinet, Drawer 3.</physloc>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  1</container>
            <physdesc><extent>112 items.</extent>Microfilmed.</physdesc>
          </did>
          <note audience="external">
            <p>Originals are located in the Massachusetts
                  Historical Society.</p>
          </note>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Papers of Alexander Brown, Justice of the
               Peace.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               2:27</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>These items include the papers of Alexander Brown in
               his capacity as justice of the peace of Nelson County,
               Virginia. Included is a notice signed by Alexander Brown
               Justice of the Peace of Nelson Co. authorizing the
               patrolling of Negro quarters and other places suspected
               of unlawful assemblies of slaves, 
               <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">19 Sept. 1857.</date>[This must be another
               Alexander Brown as he was only 14 years old at the
               time].</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 2: Business Receipts of Alexander Brown</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Business Receipts of Alexander
               Brown.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder"/>
        </did>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1847-1869.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:27</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1870-1874.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:28</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1875.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:29</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1876.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:30</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1877.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:31</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1878.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:32</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1879.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:33</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1880.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:34</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1881.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:35</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1882.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:36</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1883.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:37</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1884.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:38</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1885.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:39</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1886-1887.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:40</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1888-1889.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:41</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1890-1893.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:42</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1394-1896.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:43</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1897-1899.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  2:44</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <did>
          <head>Series 3: Business Receipts and Papers</head>
          <unittitle>Business receipts and papers of various
               members of the Cabell family.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder"/>
        </did>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letter of Mrs. Caroline A. Cabell., 
                  <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1855.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:45</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts of Mrs. Caroline A.
                  Cabell., 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1869-1877.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:45</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Miscellaneous papers of Clifford Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1852-1864.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:46</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts of D.S.G. Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1860-1861.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:47</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts of Ed. A. Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1836-1869.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:48</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts of Edwd. M. Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1859 -
                  1879.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:49</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts of George W. Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1858.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:50</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts of Joseph C. Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1859-1873.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:51</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business receipts of Lucy G. Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1875,
                  n.d.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:52</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>A copy of 
               <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">Littell's Living Age,</title>no.
               1840, 
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">Sept. 20, 1879.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               3:52</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 4: Papers of Mayo Cabell</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Papers of Mayo Cabell.</unittitle>
        </did>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters written by Mayo Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1850-1903.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:53</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters written to Mayo Cabell by
                  correspondents, A-C.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:54</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Some correspondents include Clifford Cabell, A
                  letter, 29 July 1867, from L. M. Blackford, N.Y.,
                  commenting on the attitude of the Radicals and a
                  letter, 17 Jan. 1849, from Wm. M. Cabell to his uncle
                  Mayo Cabell commenting on Louis Napoleon's election
                  to the Presidency of France and on the California
                  gold rush</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters written to Mayo Cabell by
                  correspondents, D-L.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:55</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Some items included are a letter, 23 April 1864,
                  from Jno. H. Daniell, a Confederate soldier in
                  Early's Division to Mayo Cabell and letters, 20 Sept.
                  1867 and 10 Jan. 1868, from Thomas W. Gilmer,
                  Fredericksburg, to Mayo Cabell about Texas land
                  values.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letter written to Mayo Cabell by
                  correspondents, M.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:56</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Some items included are a letter, 29 April 1865,
                  from Martin &amp; Cardoza, Richmond, Virginia to Mayo
                  Cabell reporting damage in the burning of
                  Richmond.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters written to Mayo Cabell by
                  correspondents, P.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:57</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters written to Mayo Cabell by
                  correspondents, R-W.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:58</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Legal documents and business papers of
                  Mayo Cabell.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:59</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Account of Mayo Cabell with Isaac R.
                  Watkins.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  3:60</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 5: Papers concerning the books written by
            Alexander Brown</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Papers concerning the books written by
               Alexander Brown.</unittitle>
        </did>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Notes used by Brown for 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Genesis,</title><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The First Republic,</title>and
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Cabells and Their
                  Kin.</title><unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian"/></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:61-62</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Scrapbook.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:63</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Scrapbook contains reviews of 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Genesis of the United
                  States,</title>and the author's reply to critics of 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The First Republic in
                  America,</title>as well as newspaper clippings of
                  reviews of his books.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Clippings concerning the reviews of
                  books.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:64</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Notes taken by Brown for his
                  books.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:65</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Included in these items are autobiographical notes
                  on Brown.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Miscellaneous papers of Brown.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:66</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>List of subscribers to Brown's
                  books.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:67</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Brown manuscript about Colonial
                  Virginia.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:68</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Brown's notes and manuscripts about
                  Colonial Virginia.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:69</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Printed copy of Brown's, 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The History of Our Earliest
                  History.</title></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:70</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Miscellaneous newspaper
                  clippings.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  4:70</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 6: Bills, receipts and papers of Mayo Cabell
            and his son</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Bills, receipts and papers of Mayo Cabell and
               his son.</unittitle>
        </did>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle label="Subseries">Bills and receipts of
                  Mayo Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1816-1869,
                  n.d.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder"/>
          </did>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1816-1839.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:71</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1840-1849.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:72</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1850-1853.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:73</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1854.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:74</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1855.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:75</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1856.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:76</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1857.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:77</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1858-1859.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:78</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1860-1861.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:79</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1862-1864.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:80</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                     1865-1868.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:81</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="subseries">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Bills and receipts of Mayo Cabell, 
                     <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1869,
                     n.d.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     5:82</container>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Miscellaneous receipts and letters of Mayo
                  Cabell.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  5:83</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Receipts and letters to William M. Cabell
                  and William D. Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">ca.
                  1850.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  5:84</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Items include four letters, 
                  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1852 and 1853,</date>from Mayo Cabell to his
                  son William D. Cabell, a student at the University of
                  Virginia.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Bills and receipts of William Cabell, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1846-1900.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  5:85</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 7: Correspondence of Alexander Brown</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Correspondence of Alexander
               Brown.</unittitle>
        </did>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters written to Brown from the
                  President of the American Academy of Political and
                  Social Sciences, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1891.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:86</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Items were written upon Brown's election to
                  membership.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business letters from Henry Loving &amp;
                  Son, Richmond, Virginia. 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian"/></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:86</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Business letters from Taliaferro &amp;
                  Loving, Richmond, Virginia. 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian"/></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:86</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from the Maine Historical Society,
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1892.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:87</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters concern notification of membership and
                  general correspondence.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from the Massachusetts Historical
                  Society, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1891.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:87</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters concern notification of membership and
                  general correspondence.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from the Maryland Historical
                  Society, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1881.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:87</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters concern notification of membership and
                  general correspondence.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from the New England Historic
                  Genealogical Society, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1880.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:88</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters concern confirmation of membership onto
                  Brown; and legal and business correspondence.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letter from Alexander Rives,
                  Charlottesville, Virginia, 
                  <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">20 Dec. 1875.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:89</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letter concerns rumors of Brown's political
                  activities while serving as postmaster.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letter, 
                  <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1887.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:89</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letter informs Brown that he has been elected as a
                  fellow of the Royal Historical Society.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>General business
                  correspondence.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:90</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Charter membership certificate of the Sons
                  of the American Revolution, 
                  <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">25 March 1891.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:90</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Correspondence regarding historical
                  matters.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:90</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters relating to mining in Virginia and
                  Texas land.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:91</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from Lyon G. Tyler, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">12 Oct. 1900 and 15 May
                  1901.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:91</container>
            <physdesc>
              <extent>2 letters.</extent>
            </physdesc>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters concern notification of Brown of the
                  Doctor of Laws degree awarded him by the College of
                  William and Mary.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from J.W. Tyson of Baltimore and
                  Marietta, Georgia, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1877.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:93</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters are in regards to copper mining and
                  property.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from J.W. Tyson. 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian"/></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:93</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters include one, 28 Dec. 1876, regarding a
                  country estate, mining property, and the proposed
                  Clifton Forge Railroad to connect the canal and
                  Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from J.W. Tyson, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1879.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:94</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters mostly concerning mining.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from J.W. Tyson, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1880-1881.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:95</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters from J.W. Tyson, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1878.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:96</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Miscellaneous letters about genealogical
                  researches and business interests, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1887,1881, and
                  1894.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:97</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Among the correspondents is William C. Rives of
                  Cobham, Virginia, Newport, Rhode Island, and
                  Washington, D.C.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters notifying Brown of membership in
                  the Virginia Historical Society, 
                  <unitdate type="bulk" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1878, 1881, and
                  1894.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  6:97</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 8: Miscellaneous Materials</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Miscellaneous materials of Alexander
               Brown.</unittitle>
        </did>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Items concerning the paper, 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">New Views of Early Virginia
                  History,1606-1619.</title></unittitle>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Printed copy of Brown's paper, 
                     <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">New Views of Early Virginia
                     History,1606-1619.</title></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     7:98</container>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Item includes corrections by the author.</p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Letters from Brown to Robert L.
                     Taylor.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     7:98</container>
              <physdesc>2 letters.</physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
              <p>Items concern Taylor's purchase of Brown's
                     paper, 
                     <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">New Views of Early Virginia
                     History,1606-1619.</title></p>
            </scopecontent>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Copy of 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Richmond Dispatch,</title><unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">14 Dec. 1894.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:98</container>
            <physdesc>Copy.</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Newspaper clippings.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:98</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>A printed copy of 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">A Church
                  Calendar.</title></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:98</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Printed picture of Sir Edwyn
                  Sandys.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:99</container>
            <physdesc>
              <physfacet type="material">Printed
                     picture.</physfacet>
            </physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="subseries">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Photographs.</unittitle>
          </did>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Photograph of Rev. Robert J.
                     Breckinridge.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     7:99</container>
              <physdesc>
                <physfacet type="material">
                        Photograph.</physfacet>
              </physdesc>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Photograph of Ladies of the Norwood
                     Institute, 
                     <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1895.</unitdate></unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     7:99</container>
              <physdesc>
                <physfacet type="material">
                        Photograph.</physfacet>
              </physdesc>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Photograph of Wm. Wirt
                     Henry.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     7:99</container>
              <physdesc>
                <physfacet type="material">
                        Photograph.</physfacet>
              </physdesc>
            </did>
          </c03>
          <c03 level="item">
            <did>
              <unittitle>Photograph of Rev. John
                     Breckinridge.</unittitle>
              <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                     7:99</container>
              <physdesc>
                <physfacet type="material">
                        Photograph.</physfacet>
              </physdesc>
            </did>
          </c03>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Miscellaneous articles and printed
                  matter.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:99</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Miscellaneous papers of Brown, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">ca.
                  1873.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:100</container>
            <physdesc/>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Items include legal papers regarding Brown's being
                  adjudged bankrupt, 
                  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1873.</date></p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letter from Mrs.Caroline A.
                  Cabell.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:100</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letter concerns Mrs. Caroline A. Cabell, giving
                  consent to Brown's marriage with her daughter
                  Kate.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters of condolence, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1880.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:100</container>
            <physdesc>
              <extent>2 items.</extent>
            </physdesc>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Letters were written to Brown upon the occasion of
                  his father's death.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Papers relating to Alexander Brown, Jr., 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1869-1875.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  7:101</container>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <p>Items concern the administering of the estate of
                  Mrs. Lucy S. Brown.</p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Geological survey map of Nelson and Amherst
               counties, 
               <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">ca.
               1878.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               7:102</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Field notes of land surveyed from N. Francis
               Cabell and John W. Mosby, 
               <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">6 Feb.
               1851.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               7:102</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Small volumes of miscellaneous
               entries.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               7:102</container>
          <physdesc>
            <extent>4 items.</extent>
          </physdesc>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Church subscription list for the Rev. T.D.
               Godwin, 
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1847.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:103</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Itemized accounts of Dr. Paul C. Callaway for
               medical services to a family, 
               <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
               1855-1857.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:103</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Receipts.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:103</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Business receipts of Alexander
               Brown.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:104</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>List of Confederate bonds, 
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">16 July 1864.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:105</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Bonds were held by P.A. Gilmer for produce sold to
               the Army.</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>List of clothes needed for slaves, 
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1847.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:105</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>List details winter clothes needed for 62 slaves, 8
               house servants, and 54 field hands.</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Letter from a Nacogdoches, Texas law firm, 
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1852.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:105</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Letter from the Nacogdoches, Texas law firm regarding
               lands held by a group of Virginians.</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Business papers.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:106</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Papers include those of Capt. Paul Stratton and
               others.</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Notebook of A.M. Morrell of Norwood High
               School, 
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1872-1873.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:107</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Notebook contains questions relating to history kept
               by A.M. Morrell of Norwood High School.</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Letters and postcards from Edgar Whitehead
               regarding tin mining, 
               <unitdate type="bulk" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1880's and
               1890's.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:108</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Letters and postcards are from Edgar Whitehead,
               Amherst Court House, regarding tin mining with
               references to Boise, Idaho, western lands, and
               climate.</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Memorandum of agreement between Alexander
               Brown and Houghton, Mifflin and Co.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:109</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Item regards Brown's book 
               <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The First Republic in
               America.</title></p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Letters from Charles L. Woodward, dealer in
               Rare Books and Pamphlets, New York, New
               York.</unittitle>
          <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
               8:109</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 9:Papers of Alexander Brown</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Papers of Alexander Brown.</unittitle>
        </did>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Brown family letters and
                  receipts.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  9:110</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Brown family letters and
                  receipts.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  9:111</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Letters written by Alexander
                  Brown.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  9:112</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Receipts from publishing companies and
                  historical societies.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  9:113</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Receipts from publishing companies and
                  historical societies.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  9:114</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Bills, receipts, and
                  envelopes.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  9:115</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Ledger of Mayo Cabell and Company, a lumber
               firm in Lynchburg, Virginia, 
               <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
               1855-1856.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container type="Oversize" label="Oversize">MsV.
               5</container>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>The inside cover of the ledger lists the terms of the
               partnership and distributor in Richmond, Virginia.</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Account book of Norwood Plantation, Nelson
               County, Virginia, 
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">Feb. - June 1867.</unitdate></unittitle>
          <container label="Oversize" type="Oversize">MsV.
               6</container>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Surveys and charts probably made by Alexander
               Brown.</unittitle>
          <container label="Oversize" type="Oversize">See Oversize
               File.</container>
          <physdesc>Rolled up papers.</physdesc>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Six photographs of member of the Brown family
               in Australia.</unittitle>
          <container label="Oversize" type="Oversize">See
               Photographs in oversize file.</container>
          <physdesc>
            <physfacet type="material">Photographs.</physfacet>
          </physdesc>
          <physdesc>6 items.</physdesc>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 10: Papers of R. L. Brown, the son of
            Alexander Brown</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Papers of R. L. Brown, the son of Alexander
               Brown, 
               <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1842-1870,
               n.d.</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Manuscript volume containing the accounts
                  of Robert L. Brown, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1842-1860.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">10</container>
            <physdesc><extent>Approximately 400 pages.</extent>MsV.
                  7</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Manuscript volume containing the accounts
                  of "Belmont" and "Benvenue" plantations, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1843-1864.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">10</container>
            <physdesc><extent>Approximately 230 pages.</extent>MsV.
                  8</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Manuscript volume containing the accounts
                  of Robert L. Brown, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1867-1868.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">10</container>
            <physdesc><extent>Approximately 70 pages.</extent>Remainder of
                  pages torn out. MsV. 9</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Ledger from "Union Hill," 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1 Jan.
                  1874-1886.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">10</container>
            <physdesc>MsV. 10</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>R.L. Brown's ledger of the Lynchburg
                  Female Seminary, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1860-1866.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">11</container>
            <physdesc>MsV. 11</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>R.L. Brown's ledger of the Lynchburg
                  Female Seminary, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1867-1870.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">11</container>
            <physdesc>MsV. 12</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Manuscript volume containing the accounts
                  of Robert L. Brown, 
                  <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">
                  1860-1867.</unitdate></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">11</container>
            <physdesc><extent>Approximately 202 pages.</extent>MsV.
                  13</physdesc>
          </did>
          <scopecontent>
            <head>Manuscript</head>
            <p>Manuscript Includes:</p>
            <p>Notes on shipping to Virginia, 
                  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1606-1625,</date>listing name of ship, dates of
                  sailing and arrival, captain, etc.</p>
            <p>Manuscript copies of 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">A True and Sincere Declaration
                  &amp;c,</title><date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1610.</date>(a copy made in the British Museum
                  for Brown);</p>
            <p><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">Virginia Reviewed</title>by
                  George Donne, 
                  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1637;</date></p>
            <p><title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Discourse of the old
                  Company of Virginia,</title><date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1625.</date>(printed in 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">Virginia History Society
                  Magazine,</title><date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1893-1894);</date></p>
            <p>and 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">A Short Collection of the Most
                  Remarkable Passages from Origin to the Dissolution of
                  the Virginia Company</title>(London 
                  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1651).</date></p>
          </scopecontent>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Includes miscellaneous accounts of R.L.
                  Brown.</unittitle>
            <container type="Box-folder" label="Box-folder">
                  11:116</container>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="series">
        <head>Series 11: Page Proofs</head>
        <did>
          <unittitle>Page proofs of the books written by Alexander
               Brown.</unittitle>
        </did>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Page proofs of 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Genesis of the United
                  States.</title></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">12</container>
            <physdesc>MsV. 14</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Page proofs of 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The Genesis of the United
                  States.</title></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">12</container>
            <physdesc>MsV. 15</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="item">
          <did>
            <unittitle>Page proofs of 
                  <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" render="italic" xlink:href="">The First Republic in
                  America.</title></unittitle>
            <container type="Box" label="Box">13</container>
            <physdesc>MsV. 16</physdesc>
          </did>
        </c02>
      </c01>
    </dsc>
  </archdesc>
</ead>
