 | Fourteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1943-44 |  |
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, 1 SEPTEMBER 1943 TO
30 JUNE 1944
AMBLER, ELIZABETH BARBOUR (1808-1887) COLLECTION.
1740-(1850)1928. Ca. 325 items. Deposit.
This collection includes the personal and business papers of three
generations of Amblers—John, John Jaquelin, and John Jaquelin, Jr.—
who owned the estates Glenambler and Jaquelin Hall in Amherst and
Orange Counties. Among the early items are business letters from Robert
Carter Nicholas, Thomas Ludwell Lee, Samuel Athawes (a London
merchant), and George Shaw. In the years 1823-1826 John J. Ambler took
a European tour, and the letters to him from his mother Catherine
Ambler form an interesting part of the collection. In this period is
included an ALS from James Monroe to J. J. Ambler, 25 June 1823,
enclosing letters of recommendation. The documents include the appointment
of Philip P. Barbour as Judge of the Virginia General Court, 8
February 1825, signed by James Pleasants; as Federal Judge of the
Eastern District of Virginia, 8 December 1830, signed by Andrew Jackson
and Martin Van Buren; and as Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court, 15 March 1836, signed by Andrew Jackson. There is a
manuscript diary of John J. Ambler, dated 7 July—14 August 1831. A
copy of Cotton's Virginia and North Carolina Almanack . . . 1835, Merchant
Prices-Current and Shipping List of 10 March and 24 March 1853,
the Richmond Whig, 16 May 1864, are included. A bill of sale of Daniel
Bryan to Philip P. Barbour for a Negro boy is dated 20 January 1841.
Dolly Madison writes to John J. Ambler on 19 December 1842 to thank
him for his gift of oysters to her. In 1847-1848 John J. Ambler, Jr., becomes
a student at the University of Virginia, and a series of letters to
him from his mother Elizabeth Barbour Ambler, his father John J.
Ambler, and his brother Philip P. Ambler, contains much interesting
material on the University. Included are invitations to J. J. Ambler, Jr.,
from various members of the faculty to receptions and teas. (See Annual
Report on Historical Collections, University of Virginia Library,
XI, 19; Annual Report of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library,
IV, 4.) Nos. 1921, 1964.
BAILEY, JACOB WHITMAN (1811-1857). 3 July 1833. 1 ALS.
Purchase.
To his brother William M. Bailey at Waterville, Me., from Bellona
Arsenal describing his duties as temporary commandant of the post.
(See Annual Report on Historical Collections . . . XIII, 15-16.) No. 1861.
BENTLEY, PHYLLIS (1894- ). 14 March 1936. 1 LS. Gift of
Alfred B. McEwen.
Letter signed to Mr. McEwen, thanking him for his review of her
Freedom Farewell (London, 1936). No. 1746.
BERKELEY, FREDERICK A., FIFTH EARL OF (ca. 1745-1810).
31 May 1811. 1 MS. item. Gift of Philip Highman.
Manuscript letter relating to the trial before the Committee of Claims
of the House of Lords concerning the legitimacy of the three eldest (of
six) sons of the Fifth Earl of Berkeley. No. 1908.
CABELL, WILLIAM D. (1834-1904) PAPERS. 1888-1905. 5 bound
volumes. Gift of Miss Elvira Cabell.
Scrapbooks, poems, and constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the
Norwood Literary Society, 1888-1894, from the papers of William D.
Cabell of Norwood, Nelson County, Va. No. 1744.
CARR-CARY COLLECTION. 1801-1911. Ca. 270 items. Gift of
Mrs. Charles J. Baird and Mrs. Gerhard Dicke.
Ca. 250 manuscript and printed items relating to the Cary family
including notices in regard to the movements of Mrs. Sidney Cary and
Mrs. John Pegram under suspicion during the Civil War and a handwritten
permit for them from General Beauregard; diary notes of Wilson
Cary, 1861-1864; poem by Clarence Cary; printed genealogy of Wilson
Miles Cary and diary kept by him during part of 1903; originals and
transcripts of letters from W. D. Howells, R. E. Lee, and Thomas Nelson
Page; and a newspaper clipping, account of Hetty Cary Pegram Martin,
from the Baltimore Sun, 26 March 1911. (These papers have been added
to the Wilson Miles Cary Memorial Collection. See Annual Report on
Historical Collections . . . , XI, 22-23; XII, 27.)
Eleven items of this collection are sufficiently related to the Carr-Cary
Collection to be included in it. These date between 1801-1826 and include
letters of Boucher Carr, Daniel F. Carr, Frank Carr, Peter Carr,
Overton Carr, Samuel Carr, and Thomas Jefferson. (These papers have
been added to the Carr-Cary Collection. See Annual Report on Historical
Collections . . . , XI, 22-23.) No. 1784.
CARTER, LANDON (1760-1800). 1775. 4 photoprints. Gift of John
Carter Brown Library.
Four documents, including "The Governour's Answer to the joint Address
of the Hon. the Council and the House of Burgesses, in consequence
on board the Fowey Man of War," 10 June 1775. Address of the House of
Burgesses to John, Earl of Dunmore, [15 June 1775]. Proclamation "To
All the good People of Virginia," signed by John Blair for the Council,
[May 1775]. The `Richmond Commissrs reply to the Admonitory address
to the good People of Virga," 25 May 1775. "A Declaration" by the "Representatives
of the People of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia,
assembled in General Convention," 14 December 1775. With manuscript
notes by [Landon Carter]. No. 1911.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. 1861-1865. 1 bound volume. Deposit.
Account book of R. F. Harris's Hardware Store in Charlottesville, Va.,
1861-1865, and including accounts of students and faculty at the University
of Virginia. No. 1940.
CITTERS, ARNOUT VAN (17th century). 28 September 1686. 1
LS. Purchase.
A petition from Arnout van Citters, Dutch Ambassador to the Court
of St. James, to King James II, requesting the release of Augustin van
Duren, a Dutch subject who had been kidnapped in London and sold as a
slave to a tobacco planter on the Rappahannock in Virginia. No. 1856.
CIVIL WAR (1861-1865) COLLECTION. 1865-1940. 7 items. Gifts.
ANS by Abraham Lincoln, 16 February 1865, "Allow Mrs. Slaughter,
children & servant, with ordinary baggage, to pass our lines and go
south." ANS, U. S. Grant, 6 March 1865, confirming the order. Gift of
Charles Slaughter. No. 1758. Photostats of letters from Jefferson Davis to
Walker Taylor, 31 August 1889, William Preston Johnson to Henry
Louthan, 14 March 1899, and Virginia Taylor to Rev. Louthan, 1 July
1899, concerning the proposed plan of Walker Taylor to help Jefferson
Davis kidnap Abraham Lincoln in 1862. Gift of Rev. Henry T. Louthan.
No. 1872. Typescript and chart of Confederate crosses in Maplewood
Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va. as of 1940. Gift of Miss Ella Francis
Smith. No. 1777.
CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852). 1819-1850. 22 ALS. Purchase.
To William Thornton, 6 December 1817, concerning land that Clay
had recently purchased on the Wabash River. To Mr. Watson, 8 August
1818, concerning a law suit, Edith Ross v. Daniel Barbour. DS, as
Secretary of State, 28 April 1825, certifying Richard Peters a United
States Judge in the District of Pennsylvania. To Mathew Carey, 6 June
1825, thanking him for his papers analyzing the "late British doctrines."
hoped-for success of the Whigs. To Capt. John Meany, 14 June 1831,
concerning politics and the coming elections. To Robert S. Rose, 10
September 1832, discussing politics and a visit to Mr. Madison in Virginia
and the University of Kentucky at Lexington. To Augustus E. Cohen,
4 March 1833, on politics. To R. H. Wilde, 27 April 1833, marked confidential
and discussing the tariff, U. S. bank currency, slavery, and the
land bill. To H. Shaw, 4 February 1835, concerning the Whigs in Massachusetts.
To Mrs. Margaret C. Meade, 18 December 1835, concerning politics
and foreign affairs. To Samuel Peters, 9 January 1838, concerning a
pamphlet on the currency question recently published in New Orleans.
To John Agg, 4 May 1838, concerning the establishment of a new Whig
paper in Washington. To Messrs. McNary, Hall, Maxey et al., 10 July
1840, declining an invitation to come to Nashville. To Dr. McClellan,
24 September 1846, giving directions for the burial of Clay's grandson
Martin Duraldi, who had died in Philadelphia. Also letters to William
Coffin, 28 March 1840; to S. Lawrence, 11 July 1840; to W. E. Robinson,
4 March 1848; to James Y. Earle, 21 August 1849; to J. Morrison Harris,
18 May 1850; to the editors of the New Yorker, 17 December 1850. Nos.
1754, 1761, 1769.
COLEMAN FAMILY PAPERS. 1777-1941. Ca. 1000 items. Gift of
Dr. Warren Coleman.
Manuscript letters, photoprints, copies, news-clippings, genealogical
materials and pictures, relating to the Coleman, McEwen, Twiggs, and
Houston families. A large part of the collection are letters to and from
Dr. Warren Coleman, 1927-1941, dealing with the disposal of his family
papers. Another interesting item is a photoprint of a manuscript map of
the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend, on 28 March 1814 drawn by R. H.
McEwen. Also included are a journal of Mrs. Jane Lindsay Coleman, of
Bedford Plantation, near Augusta, [Ga.], containing old recipes, records
of births and ages of slaves, 1832-1863, and brief diaries of a trip to
Europe in 1859. Among the main correspondents are: Nathaniel Green,
George Handley, William E. Kennedy, Hetty McEwen, R. H. McEwen,
and John Watt. No. 1794.
COOKE, JOHN ESTEN (1830-1886). 30 May 1885. 1 ALS. Purchase.
Business note to James R. Osgood. No. 1785.
CORNWALLIS, LORD CHARLES (1738-1805). 24 September
1780. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To Major James Moncrieff, concerning the southern campaign of the
American Revolution and the French desire to free Charleston. No. 1754.
COSWAY, MARIA, (1753-1837). 1786-1823. 27 items. Purchase.
One group of 25 ALS, 1786-1789, is the correspondence of Maria Cosway,
the celebrated Anglo-Italian painter, musician, and composer, and
Thomas Jefferson who met the charming Maria while he was United
States minister to France. There are fifteen letters from Jefferson and
ten to him, revealing how close was the friendship between these two,
and including comment on Jefferson's trips to Italy and southern Germany;
Maria's life in London; the intellectual, political, and cultural life
of the day; painting, music, and sculpture. Photoprint of an ALS from
Maria Cosway to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1801, about personal affairs
and the Catholics in America. Photoprint of a printed announcement of
the sale of some etchings by Maria Cosway, 1 February 1802. Letter of
introduction in Italian, ca. 1823, addressed to Signore Righelliri, introducing
the bearer as one interested in art. Nos. 1683, 1804, 1907.
DAVIS, JOHN STAIGE (1824-1888). 1840-1888. Ca. 400 items and
one notebook of clippings. Deposit and gift of Mrs. John S.
Davis.
Papers of John Staige Davis, Professor of Anatomy, University of
Virginia, including business letters with particular reference to the Burra
Burra Magnesium Mines in South Carolina; letters from patients and
fellow physicians concerning patients, and letters relating to the University
of Virginia. Correspondents include: George Bancroft, J. L. Cabell,
Robley Dunglison, James Fonerden, Carter P. Johnson, T. L. Macon, N.
H. Massie, Lucian Minor, William B. Rogers, Henry Scharf, and P. J.
Taylor. Also included are a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of religious
poems and extensive Civil War data. Nos. 1870, 1912.
DUNNINGTON, FRANCIS P. (1851-1944). 1868-1931. Ca. 50 items.
Gift of Dunnington Estate.
Broadsides, clippings, letters, notebooks, and photographs, materials
belonging to the late Professor Dunnington. Included is information on the
University of Virginia Y. M. C. A., Chapel Committee, and notes for
chemistry and mathematics lectures. No. 1888.
EDGEHILL-RANDOLPH COLLECTION. 1749 (1790-1850) 1886.
Ca. 5000 items. Purchase.
This interesting and valuable collection comprises the last large group
of Jefferson papers known to have been still in private hands. It includes
64 letters from Jefferson and 375 to him, relating to family and business
affairs. Many of them are from his children or grandchildren, written to
Jefferson during the years that his public career kept him away from
Jefferson from her school-girl friends, written while she was a student in
a French convent and shortly after her return to America. Another group
of ca. 50 letters from John Barnes to Jefferson is especially revealing
of Jefferson's financial affairs. In addition to these Jefferson items, a
large and important group of Wilson Cary Nicholas's letters are included.
Especially noteworthy are a series of 25 letters, 1806-1808, from John
Taylor of Caroline to Governor Nicholas, discussing politics and affairs
of the day. There is likewise an extensive correspondence with Henry
Lee over Nicholas's complicated personal finances and land titles. From
the year 1820 the bulk of the collection is formed by the extensive correspondence
of Jane Nicholas and Thomas Jefferson Randolph with their
sisters and children. It reveals the intimate family life and financial
troubles that pursued the Randolph, Nicholas, Eppes, Smith, and related
families down to the Civil War. There is also a group of letters from
George Wythe Randolph, Secretary of War of the Confederacy, which
contains, in addition to family affairs, copies of his correspondence with
Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders. Correspondents include:
John Adams, Charles L. Bankhead, James Breckenridge, James Brown,
Dabney Smith Carr, Peter Carr, Sidney Nicholas Carr, Charles Carroll,
Jane Cary, Charles Clay, Henry Clay, William Cobbett, Ellen Coolidge,
Joseph Coolidge, Tench Coxe, James Currie, Andrew Donald, Francis
Eppes, John Wayles Eppes, Maria Jefferson Eppes, Edward Everett, Joseph
Fry, Albert Gallatin, Eldridge Gerry, George Gilmer, Burgess Griffen,
Alexander Hamilton, Richard Hanson, John Harvie, Jacob Hollingsworth,
David Hylton, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Marquis de Lafayette, Richard
Henry Lee, Nicholas Lewis, James Lyle, James Madison, James Maury,
Philip Mazzei, Bishop R. K. Meade, James Monroe, Robert Morris, Margaret
Smith Nicholas, Sarah Elizabeth Nicholas, Mary Nicholas Patterson,
Timothy Pickering, Thomas Pinkney, Anne Cary Randolph, Edmund
Randolph, Elizabeth Randolph, Harriet Randolph, John Randolph, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Margaret Nicholas Randolph, Peter Randolph, Sarah
Nicholas Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Caryanne Randolph Ruffin,
William Short, Caryanne Nicholas Smith, Samuel Smith, Elizabeth Trist,
Nicholas Trist, Virginia J. Randolph Trist, Thomas Walker, George
Washington, Eli Whitney, James Wilson, and George Wythe. No. 1397.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANKING. 1900-1944. Ca. 1500 magazine
clippings. Gift of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Newspaper clippings on gold, silver, and federal deposit insurance. No.
1966.
GARNETT, GRACE FENTON 
(1817-1839). [1838]-1839. 110 pp.
typescript. Gift of Mrs. J. Clayton Mitchell.
Diary starting 1 January [1838] kept at Elm Wood, Essex County,
[Va.] with comments on Miss Garnett's daily schedule which consisted
French and Italian, and practicing music. The diary is interrupted on 2
December and starts again on 14 July [1839] from White Sulphur
Springs, where a retrospective view of her recent trip from Loretto is
noted. The description of railroad travel is interesting; Charlottesville,
Monticello, and the University of Virginia are described. There follows
a lengthy description of White Sulphur Springs. Another break occurs
on 23 August 1839 and the diary resumes on 16 October when, apparently
home again, she is suffering from ill health. The diary closes abruptly
on 18 December 1839. No. 1896.
GARNETT, MUSCOE R. H. (1821-1864). 14 November 1838. 1
ALS. Gift of Mrs. J. Clayton Mitchell.
ALS to Sally H. A. Hunter in Essex County, Va., written by Muscoe
Garnett while a student at the University of Virginia, describing his
studies, the anniversary of the student rebellion [1837], and family
affairs. No. 1949.
GOOCH, ROBERT KENT (1893- ). 1934-1935. 3 mimeographed
volumes. Gift of Raymond Uhl.
Notes on the Government of the United States, prepared by Dr. Gooch
for a course at the University of Virginia in 1934-1935. No. 1951.
GRAVES FAMILY PAPERS. Ca. 1811-1860. Ca. 60 items. Gift of
Mrs. T. A. Anderson.
Letters, legal papers, certificates, bills of sale, and receipts of the
Graves family of Caswell County, N. C. Included are descriptions of slave
sales, and letters written to friends and family in Georgia and Alabama
during the Indian and Mexican Wars. Correspondents include: John C.
Armistead, James Dwight, Barzillia Graves, Imerson L. Graves, S. S.
Graves, Sally Graves, Thomas Graves, Henry Henderson and William P.
Payne. No. 1776.
GUADIX, SPAIN. 17th-19th century. 1 MS. volume and 47 MS.
Spanish items. Gift of Mrs. Albert H. Case. In memory of Albert
V. Case.
Spanish manuscript volume, vellum bound, probably contemporary
copies of titles in lands and properties bought by Don Diego de Fuentes
y Padilla (1640-?). The 47 manuscript items are nineteenth century
business accounts and receipts from Guadix, in Grenada, Spain, mainly
concerned with church monies. No. 1745.
HARRISON FAMILY PAPERS. 1650-1930. 600 items. Deposit.
Ca. 400-500 items, materials, notes, photoprints, portraits, genealogical
tables, letters, maps, and pamphlets relating to Fairfax Harrison's Landmarks
of Old Prince William, (Richmond, 1924). Correspondence of Fairfax
Harrison, 1916-1930, concerning historical researches, genealogy,
family affairs, stock raising, American foreign policy, Southern Railway
Company, and including correspondence with D. S. Freeman and H. C.
Groome. Not open to investigators until further notice. (For other Harrison
Family Papers see Annual Reports on Historical Collections . . . ,
XII, 33; XIII, 28.) No. 1843.
HITCHCOCK, EDWARD (1793-1864). 21 April 1817. 1 ALS. Gift
of Joseph K. Roberts.
Letter to Nathaniel Bowditch concerning errors found by Hitchcock in
Blunt's Nautical Almanack . . . , (1814, 1816). No. 1753.
HOWE, L. W. 31 July 1824. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To his brother John Howe, mentioning family affairs, local crops,
and federal and state politics. "James Pleasants Sr. is Gov. of Virg. a
Quaker and a plain worthy man." No. 1812.
HUTTER, CHRISTIAN SIXTUS, JR. (1891- ).Ca. 1650-1929.
4 MS. volumes and 175 MS. documents, letters, receipts, and surveys.
Deposit and gifts.
Manuscript volume, "Rolls of Parliament," during the time of Henry
V and VI. A seventeenth century copy. No. 1831. Six manuscript indentures,
deeds, and patents dating 1706-1815. Nos. 1825, 1832, 1963. Ca.
thirty manuscript items, family letters, Confederate money orders, receipts,
accounts, school reports, etc., of the Hutter family, 1786-1876. No.
1933. Twenty ALS, 1797-1809, from William Kirby of Barnham, near
Hoswich, England, to Mr. Lowerby of Lambeth, Surrey, concerning shipments
of personal orders and business affairs. No. 1894. Manuscript
account book of James Boyle, 1810-1822, from [Lynchburg] Va. No. 1820.
ALS, Lawrence Washington to his real estate agents, 8 February 1813.
No. 1850. Photoprints of surveys of Poplar Forest, Va. [ca. 1820]. No. 1873.
ALS, William Lee to Jerome Bonaparte, February 1822. No. 1850. ALS,
Christian J. Hutter to his son Edward S. Hutter, 6 February 1825, describing
a session of the Virginia legislature and Lafayette's visit to
Virginia. No. 1803. Forty-two manuscript letters and orders, 1830-1840,
to Midn. Edward S. Hutter from the Navy Department concerning sick
leave and transfers. Nos. 1782, 1788, 1832, 1840. ALS, Martin van Buren
to H. D. Griffin, 27 November 1842, concerning politics and the national
January 1844, leaving his slaves to his wife Marian S. Cobb, and his
estate (Poplar Forest) to his daughter Emily W. Hutter. No. 1792. Manuscript
bill of rental for a slave "Jack" by Maria L. Carter, 1 January 1860.
No. 1825. Ca. thirty manuscripts, a miscellaneous group of Civil War
papers, being letters, Confederate money, receipts, etc. 1860-1864. No.
1832. Receipts and business papers, 1860-1865, of John Booker, Rockingham
County, Va. No. 1836. Two ALS, 20 April and 15 May 1864, from
Francis Kirby-Smith to his wife describing skirmishes in Louisiana and
Texas around the Sabine River. ALS, 15 June 1864 to J. M. Booker
telling of the Battle of Jenkins Ferry. No. 1808. ALS, William H. Amos,
17 June 1868, to his mother about personal affairs. No. 1849. One letter
book of Hutter family papers, 1878-1887, including letters from China
and Japan. No. 1933. Sixteen manuscript items, being covers, envelopes,
and letters bearing the autographs of distinguished American and English
figures in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including John Quincy
Adams, John Carroll of Carrolltown, Joseph Dudley, Edward Everett,
Alexander Hamilton, John P. Harley, William Henry Harrison, R. Barnwell
Rhett, and Thaddeus Stevens. No. 1913. Two ALS, 11 June and 11
November 1929, from DHL [Lawrence] to "Lohr" on literary affairs.
No. 1819. ALS, Katherine [Mansfield] to her publisher, n.d. Bound volume
of letters from minor literary figures of the nineteenth century, n.d. No.
1779.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1732-1826) PAPERS. 1766-1825. 86
items. Manuscripts, photostats, and typescripts. Deposit, purchase,
and gift.
The following additions to the Library's collection of papers have been
made in the past year in the form of letters to and from Thomas Jefferson.
Other series of letters listed under the name of the correspondent
may be located by consulting the index under Jefferson, Thomas, letters
to. Unless otherwise indicated, the following items were purchased.
Photoprint of an ALS, 11 May 1766, George Gilmer to Dr. John Morgan
of Philadelphia introducing Thomas Jefferson, " . . . your penetrating
genius will discover him to be a Gentleman eminently worthy your
acquaintance." No. 1925. Film and photoprints to Thomas Jefferson's Fee
and Case Book for the years 1767-1794. No. 1839. Photoprint, ALS, 1
December 1780, Jacob Rubsamen to [Thomas Jefferson] containing a
quotation about Monticello by Baron Geismar and comment on Peter
Jefferson. No. 1907. Photostats of two pages of notes in Jefferson's hand
for his Notes on Virginia, ca. 1781. No. 1809. Photostats of fifty-three ALS,
1790-1821, the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson with J. A. Coles,
George M. Jeffries, Bernard MacMahan, and Comtesse de Tessi, mainly
concerned with agricultural affairs. No. 1948. Typescript copy of a letter
from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Maria Eppes, 13 July 1798,
concerning her ill health and her proposed trip to Monticello. Gift of
Thomson Mason to [Thomas Jefferson] concerning the Maryland elections.
A list of candidates for public offices in Jefferson's hand with his
comment on their character, dated 16 December 1800—21 February 1801.
Words of pieces played at Jefferson's inauguration, 4 March 1801. No.
1907. Photoprint of an ALS, 8 April 1801, Thomas Jefferson to his son-in-law
John Wayles Eppes about personal affairs and the news that the
British government had promised to suppress all their courts of admiralty
in America and reform those in the West Indies. Gift of Jefferson R. Kean.
No. 1901. Photoprint of an ALS, 20 December 1801, from Jefferson to
Benjamin Rush, commenting on the progress of small pox vaccination in
Philadelphia, politics, the spoils system, and Jefferson's hopes for the
future. No. 1947. Typescript of an ALS to Thomas Jefferson from Daniel
Brown et al. of Cheshire, Mass., presenting him with a mammoth cheese
and praising him as President. Jefferson's reply (photostat) thanks the
citizens of Cheshire for their gifts and mentions his concept of the three
main safeguards afforded by the Constitution. Gift of the United States
Department of Agriculture. No. 1937. Photostat of the appointment of
Jonathan Delano, dated 4 October 1804, and signed by President Jefferson.
Gift of the United States Coast Guard Academy. No. 1799. Typescript
copy of a letter from Ulysses Selden to William Woodbridge, 17 February
1805, concerning comment on Litchfield, Conn., family news, and
mention of the unpopularity of Jefferson's government in Connecticut.
Typescript copy of a letter from James May and John Anderson to the
President of the United States, 1806, concerning land grants and government
in the Michigan area of Indiana territory. Gift of Detroit Public
Library. No. 1934. Photoprint of an ALS, 3 January 1808, to Dr. Benjamin
Rush concerning the appointment of Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse to the
Marine Hospital at Boston, Mass., and the difficulties of the Embargo Act.
No. 1947. Printed anti-Jefferson tract, 23 July 1810, from the Edward
Brown papers. No. 1890. Five ALS, 12 May 1812—5 July 1823, Thomas
Jefferson to Samuel Harrison commenting on land sales, building of the
University of Virginia, and praising Mr. Harrison's son. Gift of Francis B.
Harrison. No. 1774. ALS, 18 September 1817, Jefferson to Samuel J. Harrison
discussing wines, their use in Europe and America. Gift of Francis
B. Harrison. No. 1771. ALS, 27 June 1820, Jefferson to James Monroe,
while the latter was President of the United States, sending him plans for
Oak Hill, Va. Deposit. No. 1905. Photoprint of Jefferson's plans for the
serpentine wall at the University of Virginia, ca. 1824-1826. Gift of Samuel
H. McVitty. No. 1871. AL (mutilated), 13 April 1825, Jefferson to
John S. Smith of Baltimore thanking him for his gifts to the Library of
University of Virginia, and describing the first months of the institution.
No. 1762.
KEAN, JEFFERSON RANDOLPH (1860- ). 1943-1944. 8 items.
Transfer from Librarian's Office, University of Virginia.
Correspondence of Harry Clemons and General Kean, including
discussion of the edition of Jefferson's writings by Julian P. Boyd, the
biography of Herman Husband (1724-1795) by Mary E. Lazenby, and
various gifts of General Kean to the Library. No. 1902.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865). 21 December 1863. 1 photostat.
Gift of D. N. Heineman.
One photostatic copy of a letter from President Lincoln to Secretary
of War Edwin McMasters Stanton, concerning strikes in the ship yards,
the social influence of St. Louis and Senate politics. No. 1828.
McCLURE, CHARLES (1858-1942). 1910-1942. Ca. 2000 items. Gift
of McClure Estate.
Pamphlets, maps, documents, scrap books, newspaper clippings, and
letters, the property of Mr. McClure. Most of the material concerns world
affairs, with particular reference to statistics and world economics. The
correspondence was conducted over a period of years with leading newspapermen
and economists, including Walter Lippmann and Felix Morley.
No. 1765.
McDOWELL FAMILY PAPERS. 1792-1880. Ca. 160 items. Purchase.
Papers of James McDowell of Fairfield, Rockbridge County, Va., including
comment on western lands speculations, the War of 1812, Virginia
politics, slavery, the Washington Peace Convention of 1861, Confederate
veterans organizations in the 1870's, and the Southern Historical Society.
Correspondents include James Barbour, Thomas Hart Benton, William H.
Cabell, John Floyd, Henry Harris, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Richard Bland
Lee, Thomas Ritchie, William Cabell Rives, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Allen
Trimble, and James Wood. No. 1755. (This material has been added to
the McDowell Papers previously acquired. See Annual Report on Historical
Collections . . . , XIII, 35.)
MANSON, JOHN C. (19th century). 15 July 1812. 1 photostat.
Gift of W. C. Manson.
Commission to John C. Manson as sailing master in the Navy of the
United States, signed by President James Madison. No. 1846.
MAPHIS, CHARLES G. (1865-1938). 1876-1930. Ca. 2000 items.
Gift of Mrs. Charles G. Maphis.
Photographs, posters, prints, portfolios, day books (from Maphis's
Drug Store, 1876-1902), albums, notebooks, broadsides, letters, bills, and
cancelled checks belonging to Mr. Maphis and relating to the University
of Virginia. (This material has been added to the Maphis papers previously
acquired. See Annual Report on Historical Collections . . . , XIII,
37-38.) No. 1866.
MAURY FAMILY PAPERS. 1830-1878. 4 MSS. items. Deposit.
One ALS, James Maury to Anne Maury, 15 July 1830; one manuscript
listing of Consular Plate, undated, [ca. 1840?]; one ALS, Anne Maury to
Nan Maury, 25 January 1876; one ALS, William Maury to Henry Maury,
4 August 1878. (This material has been added to other Maury Family
Papers previously acquired. See Archivist Report, VIII, 6-7; Annual Report
on Historical Collections . . . , XI, 37-38; XII, 41; XIII, 39-40.) No.
1783.
MAVERICK PAPERS. Ca. 1860-1944. Ca. 150 items. Gift of Mrs.
Albert Maverick.
Manuscripts, typescripts, letters, photographs, prints, broadsides, and
mementos of Mrs. Jane Maury Maverick who was born at Piedmont, the
Maury home in Albemarle County, Va., and moved to Texas on her marriage.
The material includes reminiscences, and short stories by Mrs.
Maverick. No. 1946.
MITCHELL, MRS. J. CLAYTON (1863- ). 1878-1889. 2 ALS.
8 MSS. volumes. Gift of Mrs. Mitchell.
Eight copy books, 1878-1879, of Minnie Garnett (Mrs. J. C. Mitchell),
dated from Hoboken, N. J. Two ALS, to Mrs. R. M. T. Hunter from Lisbon,
Portugal, 27 November 1888 and 17 April 1889, describing the life
at the American Embassy there. Nos. 1915, 1962.
MOSS'S NECK ESTATE. Ca. 1850. 1 broadside. Gift of Rev.
Wythe L. Kinsolving.
A list of slaves, presumably for sale, from the Moss's Neck Estate,
[Caroline County?], Va. No. 1770.
NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION FOR THE STATE OF
VIRGINIA. 1935-1943. 1 volume typescript, 183 pp. Gift of the
President's Office.
A summary view of the N. Y. A. in Virginia in its eight years of
operation, edited by C. B. Lund, and including a statistical and descriptive
account of its activities, and particular reference to Negro projects.
"The purpose of this report is to sum up . . . the reasons for the need of a
National Youth Administration Program . . . the progress of the program,
the tangible and intangible results, the names and philosophy of some
of its outstanding leaders . . . and . . . the effect this great movement
had upon the youths of Virginia." No. 1897.
NEWSPAPERS.
Major acquisitions to the Library's file of newspapers by gift and
purchase include the following. Unless otherwise indicated the item was
purchased.
Virginia Papers
Camp Wilkes, Accomac County, Va., The Regimental Flag, 16 January
1862.
Charlottesville, Jeffersonian Republican, 18 May 1881. Gift of the Estate
of F. P. Dunnington.
Fredericksburg, The Christian Banner, 7 January 1862.
Lynchburg, Daily Republican, 31 July 1861.
Petersburg, Virginia Gazette and Petersburg Intelligencer, 3 December
1799. Gift of Mrs. Sally Hamilton.
Richmond, Daily Dispatch, 21 February 1872.
The Enquirer, 25 November 1808, 28 November 1809.
Richmond Dispatch, 25, 26, 27, 18, 31 May 1893; 1, 2 June 1893.
Gift of Mrs. Sally Hamilton.
Richmond Virginian, 22 October 1919, 17 November 1919. Gift of the
Estate of F. P. Dunnington.
Roanoke, The Roanoke Evening World, 16 September 1905. Gift of Stone
Printing and Manufacturing Company.
The Roanoke Times, 16 September 1905. Gift of Stone Printing and
Manufacturing Company.
Out-of-state Papers
Riverside, California, Riverside Press and Enterprise, Golden Anniversary
Edition, 1943. Gift of Riverside Press and Enterprise.
Littleton, Colorado, Littleton Independent, Golden Jubilee Number, 22
July 1938. Gift of Rev. Henry T. Louthan.
Washington, D. C., Washington Herald, 4, 5 March 1913.
Washington Post, 4 March 1913, 9 August 1923.
Washington Times, 4 March 1913. Gift of Mrs. Sally Hamilton.
Foreign Papers (Published in the U. S. A.)
New York, New York, The American Hungarian Observer, 21 November
1943, 25 December 1943. Gift of American Hungarian Federation.
Amerique, VIe Année, ler Janvier 1939, 16 Avril 1939. Gift of
Rev. Henry T. Louthan.
Amerique, Xe Anneé, 23 Mai 1943, 30 Mai 1943. Gift of Miss Imogene
Copps.
Aufbau, 30 July 1943. Gift of New World Club Incorporated.
The Polish Weekly, 24 October 1943. Gift of the President's Office,
University of Virginia.
Foreign Papers
Algiers, Algeria, Tam, l'hebdomadaire de l'empire, 5 June 1943. Gift of
Mrs. John Flynn.
Sidney, Australia, The Sun, 12 May 1944. Gift of Middleton Freeman.
Vienna, Austria, Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 1 March 1939. Gift of Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Jackson.
London, England, Daily Mail, from 29 March—17 May 1944. Gift of Harcourt
Parrish.
Deutsche Zeitung, 10 December 1938; 13, 20 May 1939. Gift of Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Jackson.
Funf Jahre Reichfrauenfuhrung, 4 March 1939. Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth
G. Jackson.
London Times, 8 June 1939. Gift of Mrs. Sally Hamilton.
Manchester, England, The Manchester Guardian, 1941, August 1—September
15; 1942, September 16—October 31; 1943, February—
May, September—December; 1944, January—February. Eight
rolls microfilm, Harvard University.
Manchester Guardian Commercial, 19 July 1923, 2 July 1925, and
Special Section 29 July 1926. Gift of Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond.
Dublin, Ireland, United Ireland, Special Issue, 12 October 1891. Gift of
Mrs. Raymond Gorges.
Casablanca, Morocco, Paris, le grand hebdomadaire de la liberation,
14 June 1943. Gift of Mrs. John Flynn.
Le Petit Casablancais, 12 June 1943. Gift of Mrs. John Flynn.
The Stars and Stripes, Casablanca Daily, 14 June 1943. Gift of Mrs.
John Flynn.
La Vigie Marocaine, 27 January 1943. Gift of Dr. Leon R. Culbertson.
Panama City, Panama, Panama-American, 7 June 1944. Gift of Middleton
Freeman.
PAXTON, ELISHA F. (1828-1863). 1944. 1 newspaper clipping.
Gift of Greenlee D. Letcher.
Clippings from the Lexington Gazette, 2 February and 9 February
1944, being the biography of the Confederate Brigadier-General Elisha
F. Paxton, as read at a meeting of the Rockbridge County Historical
Society, 31 January 1944. No. 1899.
POOLE, WILLIAM F. (1821-1894). 2 January 1892. 1 ALS. Transfer
from Reference Division.
A letter to —, explaining some corrections in the 1882 edition
of Poole's Index. No. 1952.
PRENTIS FAMILY PAPERS. 1767-1851. 98 typescript letters and
3 typescript volumes. Gift of Robert H. Webb.
Copies of business and personal letters of the Prentis family, their
friends, and associates, from Norfolk, Petersburg, Richmond, Suffolk, and
Williamsburg, Va., concerning trade with Trinidad, some mention of
American politics, and legal affairs. Correspondents include: Samuel
Athawes, John Blair, William Browne, Jr., Miles Cary, Joseph Davenport,
Benjamin Day, Arthur Jkin, William Nelson, John Norton & Sons,
George Pitt, Joseph Prentis, Jr., Joseph Prentis, Sr., Mary Brooke Prentis,
Randolph, Catherine Russell, Robert Saunders, Jr., James Semple,
Thomas Shrimpton, Alexander Spotswood, Peterfield Trent, St. George Tucker, Richard Wall, and George Wythe. (See Annual Report on Historical
Collections . . . , XII, 48.) Nos. 1801, 1932.
RANDOLPH, JOHN (1773-1833). 1805-1832. 3 MSS. volumes.
Purchase and gift of Mrs. J. Clayton Mitchell.
One volume contains copies of several speeches (ca. 1805-1810) of John
Randolph of Roanoke in Congress on such topics as the Yazoo land
claims, impeachment of Judge Samuel Chase, the death of George
Washington, and the development of the American Navy. These speeches,
apparently recorded by Randolph's secretary, contain much material that
was suppressed or omitted when they were published. The other two
volumes comprise the correspondence of John Randolph with James
Mercer Garnett, his political friend and ally, during the significant
period 1806-1832. There are 211 letters from Randolph and 132 letters
to him, discussing agriculture, county politics, and national issues. Also
included are two broadsides, one by Garnett in 1809, at the end of his
political career; the other by Randolph in 1812 attacking Speaker Henry
Clay; and letters from John Brockenbrough, William Leigh, and W. W.
Seaton. The use of this material is restricted. Nos. 1883, 1893.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN (1768-1828). 16 February 1824.
1 ALS. Purchase.
To Henry Remsen requesting a loan and discussing the possibility of
Randolph's being appointed Port-Master at Richmond. No. 1754.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR COLLECTION. 27 February 1766. 1
photoprint. Gift of Robert J. Kennedy.
Facsimile reproduction of "The Association in Westmoreland County,
Virginia, to prevent the execution of the Stamp Act." No. 1891.
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA. 1944. Ca. 20,250 items. Deposit.
United States Public Health Survey of the population of Roanoke, Va.,
made in 1944, and including economic and social statistics. No. 1943.
ROTHERY, AGNES PRATT COLLECTION. 1943-1944. Ca. 500
items. Gift of Mrs. Harry R. Pratt.
Manuscript of, other materials for, and correspondence relating to
Miss Rothery's latest books, Ports of British Columbia (Doubleday
Doran, 1943) and A Fitting Habitation (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1944). Nos.
1795, 1886.
SABINE HALL PAPERS. 1659 (1740-1860) 1897. Ca. 700 items.
Deposit.
Manuscript diary of Landan Carter (1763-1778). (Not open to investigators
until further notice.) The rest of the collection is made up of the
papers of Robert Carter (1663-1732), Landon Carter (1700-1778), Landon
Carter (1760-1800), Robert Wormeley Carter (d. 1861), and related
members of the Carter family. The earliest papers are largely legal in
nature and include manuscript maps and drawings, land patents and
deeds, indentures, bills of sale, receipts, and accounts relating to the
Sabine Hall Estate in Richmond County, Va. Early eighteenth century
material includes personal and family letters on births, marriages, and
deaths, and such plantation accounts as tobacco sales, wheat thrashing,
wine making, purchase and sale of slaves, collection of quit rents, corn
shucking, shipping difficulties, garden vegetables, and the health of the
family and friends. From the year 1765 the papers take on an increasingly
political aspect. Landon Carter was deeply concerned with governmental
changes brought on by the Revolution in Virginia. There are letters
telling of the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker
Hill, the various county committees of Public Safety, the Virginia
Convention, etc. Included are special articles and letters Landon Carter
and others wrote to the Virginia Gazette. The material in the nineteenth
century becomes again the record of a family, with special interest in
state banking, White Sulphur Springs, and social life in Virginia and
Washington, D. C. There are account books for the Sabine Hall Estate
from 1858-1879 and much material on the settlement of the estate of
Robert Wormeley Carter (d. 1861). The papers of A. N. Wellford date
from 1867-1897. Among the correspondents are: Edward Athawes, Nelson
Berkeley, Robert Beverley, William Brockenbrough, Charles Carter,
John Carter, Landon Carter, Robert Carter, Robert Wormeley Carter,
Richard Corbin, G. W. Fairfax, Moore Fauntleroy, William Fitzhugh,
Isaac W. Giberne, Walter Jones, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Robert E. Lee,
William Lloyd, Daniel McCarty, Thomas B. Martin, John Minor, Robert
C. Nicholas, John Page, Peter Pelham, Alexander Purdie, John Rice,
William Rind, Benjamin Rust, John Taylor, John Tyler, A. N. Wellford,
John Wellford, Elizabeth Wormeley, and Ralph Wormeley. Nos. 1795,
1959.
SEAY FAMILY PAPERS. 1840-1900. Ca. 200 items. Gift of Rev.
Henry T. Louthan.
Business receipts, bills, and legal documents of Richmond and Caroline
Counties, Va. No. 1800.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1899-1901) COLLECTION. 18991943.
1 typescript. Gift of Wilbur E. McClenny.
Report of the Department Historian of Virginia to the United Spanish
War Veterans State Encampment, held at Richmond, Va., 26 June 1943,
entitled, "Activities of Spanish-American War Veterans in Virginia
1899-1943." No. 1752.
SPOTSWOOD, ALEXANDER (1751-1818). 16 November 1775. 1
photostat. Gift of Alexander W. Armour.
To Edmund Pendleton concerning the relief of our "poor distrest
countrimen" in the "Lower Parts." No. 1858.
STOCKTON, FRANK R. (1834-1902). 1881-1904. 7 items. Purchase.
Manuscript of an article by Frank Stockton, "Alligator Hunting."
written in Charlottesville, Va., ca. 1881. Five letters concerning its
publication in the St. Nicholas Magazine in 1904. No. 1889.
TAYLOR, ROBERT COLEMAN (1863-1942). 1890-1905. Ca. 500
items. Gift of Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor.
Letters, papers, briefs, etc., of Robert Coleman Taylor. Mr. Taylor represented
the interests of the University of Virginia in the legal dispute
over the will of Daniel B. Fayerweather. No. 1852.
THOMPSON, RANDALL (1899- ). 13 April 1943. 1 bound MS.
volume. Gift of Randall Thompson.
The composer's original manuscript of "The Testament of Freedom."
"A setting of four passages from the writings of Thomas Jefferson. Composed
for and dedicated to the University of Virginia Glee Club, in
memory of the Father of the University." The premier performance of
this work was presented on April 13, 1943 at a special Founder's Day
concert held at Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, in honor of the
bi-centennial of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, and was broadcast over
a national network. Recordings were made of the performance by the
United States Office of War Information and were broadcast to the
armed forces overseas. With this manuscript are the composer's arrangements
of several other works presented on the same occasion. The
Charms of Lovely Peggy, (words att. to David Garrick, broadside, 1740);
Duet: "Tacite Ombre" from Songs and Duets composed by [Maria]
Cosway (1759-1838); and Hail Liberty the Sweetest Bliss, a Quick Step
to the New President's March. (Printed and sold by G. Willig, Philadelphia,)
[1801].
TYLER, JOHN (1790-1862). 1861. Ca. 107 items. Purchase.
Manuscripts, clippings, broadsides, photographs, and notes, largely in
the handwriting of John Tyler, concerning the Convention held in
Washington, D. C. in 1861, in an attempt to prevent Civil War. John Tyler
was president of the Convention, and this material shows that he
labored sincerely, although unsuccessfully, to maintain peace. No. 1942.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLECTION. 1827-1943. MSS.
letters, note-books, typescripts, printed items, and photographs.
Deposits, gifts, and purchases.
In addition to acquisitions separately listed the Library has acquired
various items relating to the University. Among them are the following
items: manuscript album (1827-1832) of autographs and poetry belonging
to Lucy G. Gratton, and including "Impromptu on the University
uniform by a student of the Uni . . . y." Purchase. No. 1885. Notebook of
law lectures at the University of Virginia, 1833. On blank sheets of the
same volume are notes and a diary of Jennett A. Tavennor, ca. 1857-1862.
Gift of Roy B. Cook. No. 1916. One manuscript item dated 24 September
1835, a takeoff on a mathematics lecture of Dr. Charles Bonnycastle, signed
by John S. Davis, James P. Wilson Eyre, and other students. Deposit.
No. 1845. Manuscript notebook for the year 1841, the accounts of William
Thornton. Transfer from Exchange Division. No. 1906. Invitation to the
Washington Society Valedictory Oration, 1 June 1853, given by Henry
A. Carrington of Charlotte County, Va. Gift of Mrs. Dabney Coffman.
No. 1780. Manuscript notebook of Peyton Horatio Skipworth, Jr., of
lectures in Latin at the University, 1865-1866. One manuscript geology
examination dated 26 June 1866, signed by John R. Yonree. Gradebook
of F. H. Smith for the course in Natural Philosophy dated 1878. Gradebook
of James R. Thornton for the courses in Latin and English dated
September 1881. Transfer from Exchange Division. No. 1906. Invitation
dated 24 June 1883 to the final celebration of the Washington Society.
Gift of Mrs. Walter H. Page. No. 1772. Ca. 50 photographs, being views
of the Engineering School during its construction and as it is at the
present time. Gift of Joseph L. Vaughan. No. 1775. A contract for student
waiters at the University Commons, 1 October 1919. Letter of J. E.
Johnson to College Topics, 17 January 1920, concerning co-education.
Gift of J. Edward Johnson. No. 1950. List of members and associates of
the Virginia Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1924-1943. Gift of Joseph K. Roberts.
No. 1787. Copy of the prayer given by William M. Forrest, 20 December
1928, at the funeral of Albert Lefever, former University professor.
Gift of William M. Forrest. No. 1877. Two typescript volumes, copies of
the History of Philosophy outlines used in Philosophy B-1 course at the
University of Virginia, 1930-1940. Gift of Albert G. A. Balz. No. 1881.
VIETT, GEORGE F. (1868-1943) COLLECTION. Ca. 1900-1943.
Ca. 15,000 items. Gift of B. A. Banks, Charles H. Consolvo, and
S. K. Rubiaz.
Clippings, letters, poems, articles, photographs, maps, scrap books,
albums, broadsides, ledgers, and plates, comprising the literary collection
of the late Mr. Viett, and including comment on events of the early
twentieth century, World War I, literary criticism, scientific fields, and
politics. No. 1960.
WALKER, DUGALD S. 1935-1937. Ca. 30 items. Gift of Rev. Henry
T. Louthan.
Letters to Rev. Louthan of Richmond, Va., concerning certain religious
poems and bookplates created by Walker. No. 1800.
WELLFORD, P. A. (1834?-1909). 1882-1885. 1 MS. letter book.
Gift of Mrs. Sally Hamilton.
Letter book and index of P. A. Wellford. Most of the letters are dated
from Richmond, Va., and concern business affairs, legal practices, and
Virginia railroads. No. 1848.
WERTENBAKER, THOMAS GRADY (1839-1862). [1862]. 2 items.
Gift of Mrs. John Flynn.
Manuscript and typescript of a letter of Thomas Grady Wertenbaker to
his mother, written during the Civil War and describing the grievances
of the Confederate soldier. A one-page typescript of a biographical
sketch of T. Grady Wertenbaker. No. 1791.
WINCHESTER, VA. 1 November 1839. 1 item. Gift of C. J. Carrier.
Uncut sheet of paper money. No. 1909.
WOMENS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 1878-1944. Ca.
35 items. Deposit and gift of Mrs. E. H. McPherson.
Three-page typescript history of the Virginia W. C. T. U., 1878-1920.
One twenty-two page manuscript, "History of Central Union (18921917),"
by Mrs. Gertrude B. Ross. One two-page manuscript, a biographical
sketch of Mrs. Edith Smith Davis. One four-page typescript, "Look
Backward with Central W. C. T. U. (1892-1942)," by Mrs. Edith Smith
Davis. One manuscript volume, minutes of Central Union, W. C. T. U. of
Roanoke, Va. (1912-1915). Ca. twenty-five programs of the Virginia W.
of prize essays from Virginia High Schools, won in a W. C. T.
U. contest ending 1 July 1943. Local Union Directory, W. C. T. U. of Virginia,
1943-1944. Nos. 1750, 1756, 1763, 1823, 1853.
WORLD WAR I (1914-1918) COLLECTION. 1917-1919. Ca. 110
items. Gift of Miss Rose E. McDonald.
Letters and cards from American soldiers overseas in World War I
to Miss McDonald, then chairman of Alexandria, Va. Red Cross Canteen.
Correspondents include: Pvt. Eli Dulger, Lt. J. E. Fosick, Capt. B. H.
Kyle, Chaplain W. Byrd Lee, Lt. M. W. McDonald, Capt. Geo. M. Mott,
Maj. T. D. Stirling, and Pvt. James Wood. No. 1748.
WORMELEY FAMILY PAPERS. 1773-1802. Ca. 25 items. Deposit.
One manuscript copy book, containing ca. 212 letters, both "fair copies"
and extracts, the letters of Ralph Wormeley concerning business,
legal, and personal affairs during the years 1783-1802. Much of the
correspondence is with English merchants and prominent Virginia political
leaders. The loose manuscript items include correspondence with
Backhouse & Rutson (tobacco merchants of Liverpool), John Banks, Robert
Beverley, William Byrd, Nathaniel Foy, J. Gell, Hugh James, G.
Mackay, C. M. Napier, William Quincy, Mann Page, Jr., Edmund Pendleton,
William Strickland, William Tryon, and N. Welch, Jr., during
the years 1773-1799, and comment on Ralph Wormeley's family and
personal affairs, the Revolutionary War, particularly the Battle of Bunker
Hill, loyalists in Virginia, trade with the West Indies, and new conditions
concerning the tobacco sales. No. 1939.
YANCEY, R. A. Ca. 1910-1933. 11 MSS. volumes. Gift of Mrs.
Richard A. Yancey.
Eleven account books from the general store of R. A. Yancey, Yancey
Mills, Albemarle County, Va. No. 1760.
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