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1Author:  Brooke, M.L.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Brooke family correspondence Assen.No.38 137  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I fancy you at the Powhatan to night and I hope that instead of one letter you will get two from me, there must be some irregular -ity in the mails. I have never failed to write you twice a week and you ought to have receivd a letter before you left Richmond — for St. Julian — if you get both letters you will acknowledge the recip't of them— oh how delighted I should have been at an unespected visit from you and I could not help feeling disappointed that you thought of coming and did not do so but I think you acted wisely — I know if you had consulted your inclination alonethat you would have spent your Christmas with us. You see I am not jealous but I eny Pa his happiness— and hope you had a pleasant trip— I am alone with no other company than John and Juliet— M & V. are at their Grand Pa's I am lonely enough but I was afraid to keep Margaret at home least she should incur then Grand Pa's displeasure, She told him that I would be alone and it seem'd to fret him and I've linquis -hed my claims at once, tho' reluctantly I aſsure you they will be gone all week I expect Juliet tomorrow or the next day I wrote to Father that I should keep him here— Sandy Stuart writes that she was much admired in Washington Staunton is very dull I never knew it as much so as this season— Mr Hamilton was here a few days ago Judge Baldwin examined him and he is now at Judge Smith's will be here tomorrow night— he has concluded to settle in Lexington after a visit to Lynchburg— he has many schemes to numerous to mention in a letter thinks that he can keep house on less than he can board for— which is 300 Dollars— they will beat me in management if they do and hire servants— Mat will not be down this winter——our servants are all hired to the institutions Mary and Ann— we get 40 dolars for it is the best home for them I think I did not consult Ann;— I hold Joe at 120 dollars and expect to get it— he remains at the hospital they can't do without him and must pay for him— John will bring the same— Beverly has not come I expect him this week— Charlotte will be here tomorrow— I never had as little anxiety about hiring the servants— and never did better— Doct. Berkeley has all this on his hands and no homes for them yet— I was there today delivered your message— but he did not say that you should get more things I suppose he will write if he still wants them—my groceries have not arrived yet— I will write as soon as I get them—you would laugh if you could take a peep at my table with two plates and cups on it—me at the head and John at the foot— doing like pa he says he is very attentive to my wants and says if I write you that he is a bad boy he will tane the letters up. he wants to send you some ginger cakes for a Christmaſ gift— Juliet says yet I want to see my Pa—She wont forget you She improves daily I think—they rise every morning before day light and are as merry as crikets— the airtight stove is the greatest comfort to us we manage it better this winter and I could not do without it. Some cold mornings I sit all day in the dining room which is very comfortable the stove burns much less wood than the fire place place did and is much warmer—do write often devote all your leisure moments to me this is asking very little— when you have so few— I think of you all the time. I will write you by Judge Baldwin — Sister Beverly says do send your love to her sometimes I tell her that I cannot share your love with any body— She thinks me very selfish.—
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2Author:  Cabell, William D.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from William D. Cabell to his brother Joseph [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: Your very interesting letter came safely to hand and I expected to reply to it by last mail but was prevented from so doing and must now do what I have so long neglected doing. But first to our busineſs: a letter of Mrs. Carrs arrived by the same mail that yours did and that has all been attended to; a draft has been for-warded to her for $75 on your aſc in payment of your bill with her for the last half of your last seſsion with her as boarder &c. No doubt the bill is all correct. You are charged with wood also — but credited only by $20. This renders it neceſsary to curtail my remittance to you and therefore enclosed you have one draft for $75 being as much as I could well remit you at present. I hope it may answer your purposes for the present. The draft will paſs for money with any accommodating merchant who has opportunities to present it.
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3Author:  Childs, Starling W.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Starling W. Childs to Miss Mary-Stuart Smith, Nov. 17, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: Thank you very much for sending me the papers about the fire.
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4Author:  Cocke, Chas. H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Chas. H. Cocke to M. Louise Cocke, Nov. 3, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I am very much obliged for your kind letter. The University fire was a great shock to me. It haunted me night & day at first. I felt & feel as though a temple had been profaned. No loyal alumnus can fail to feel a personal loss. If the alumni's ability equaled their inclinations, I feel sure the work of restoration would be but a matter of time, and that the shortest necessary. The limitations of poverty in such crises are most sorely felt. What a pleasure it would be to be able to give a million straight down at once to restore and re-equip the buildings, in such order and style as the authorities might deem best! As it is, while my heart was full and my purse empty, I had to force back the words that rushed forward for expression of my sympathy & sorrow and content myself with sending Dr. Thornton a meagre declaration of my willingness to do anything in the power of an impecunious alumnus! I knew he would be deluged with telegrams & letters, so I was brief.
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5Author:  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  Pay of Colored Troops  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: The following is the petition in respect to the arrears of pay due a portion of the colored troops, to which reference was lately made under our telegraphic head.
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6Author:  Hubard, Robert ThrustonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Robert Thruston Hubard's Negroes in Buckingham [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: THE COACH DOG
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7Author:  Hughes, Robert M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Robert M. Hughes to Armistead Gordon, Nov. 26, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I have been intending to write to you on the subject of the University fire for some time, but my engagements in court lately have been very engrossing and I have not had the opportunity until now.
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8Author:  Mann, W. A. and Lusk, John A. M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Public hiring of free negroes  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: WILL be hired at public auction in front of the Court House, on the first day of March Court next, the following FREE NEGROES to pay their taxes, for the amount an- nexed to their names:
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9Author:  McKenney, W. D.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W. D. McKenney to Paul Barringer, Oct. 7, 1896; [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: In Novem- ber last just after the fire that so se- riously damaged the University of Virginia our alumni resident here in Charleston held a meeting for the purpose of raising money to aid in the restoration of the buildings and refitting the departments.
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10Author:  Mead, William R.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from William R. Mead to Dr. Barringer, Nov. 5, 1895; [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: Your letter of the 29th was received at the office while I was on the ocean returning from Europe, which will account for my not answering it immediately. I presume matters have taken such shape in the meantime that I can only say how much we all regret the calamity which has befallen the University in the loss of a building that was one of the architectural monuments of the country—and our hope that its reconstruction has fallen into reverent hands- It would indeed be a misfortune if some one tries to be original and improve on what has gone before—ex cept perhaps as to interior arrangement— If no final arrangements have been made we can only say we should consider it an honor to be associated with the work and apart from our actual expense should not consider the money side of the matter. These expenses from our past experience would amount to about 3 per cent on the expenditure.
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11Author:  Murray, StirlingRequires cookie*
 Title:  Diary of Stirling Murray, a fragment from 1816 dealing with the slave trade in Havana [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: The Slave trade was prosecuted very successfully whilst I was at Havana. Numbers of fast sailing vessels were constantly fitting out for the coast of Africa & several Cargoes of the horrible merchandize arrived. The slaves were taken out & carried to houses constructed expressly for them what were called the barracoons just without the walls of the city where they are well treated until restored to health & spirits.
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12Author:  New, AnthonyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Printed Letter, 1794 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: THE resolutions proposed by Mr. Madison, upon the principle of securing the advantages to the navigation and commerce of the United States, which of right belong to her, and which have been hitherto usurped by Britain, have been postponed to the first Monday in March, by which time, the public will may be tolerably ascer- tained, and foreign occurrences better known: A state like ours, whose prosperity depends upon the regular exportation of bulky commodities, to distant countries, must be deeply interested to secure the national means of doing it, independent of foreign revolutions and wars.
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13Author:  Pleasants, JamesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from James Pleasants to Frank Smith, Oct. 28, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: Yesterday was truly a day of days; of sympathi- zing sorrow & overwhelming sadness with us all. Besides the terrific blow that fell on dear Robert Stiles in the death of his daughter Lelia, who died in the morning at 8 o'clock, there next came upon us the crushing news that the dear old University was in flames and doubtless doomed to destruction! I need not attempt to describe our misery and anxiety. All day long was spent in eagerness, & melancholy, about the University's fate. I hardly have ever known more excite- ment in our Community, and as the day wore on & the news became sadder & sadder, we felt as if the loss of the beloved old Rotunda and Public Hall, with its priceless contents, would be felt as the most irreparable of disasters, and saddest of blows. I thought of you very often & those invaluable treasures; and especially of your lecture- room & its apparatus.
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14Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W. C. N. Randolph to A. Gordon, Jan. 13, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I enclose you some papers that will be rather a shock to you but that will speak for themselves. It makes me more and more convinced that we can't safely undertake this task which is upon us without having a thoroughly trained inspector and not only that but a supervising architect. Men who will be entirely in our interests and who will be paid by ourselves and who will be making us frequent reports. Neither Thornton or Echols are fit for this sort of thing; they haven't the practical experience nor are either of them very practical men. We ought to take the whole affair out of the hands of the buildings and grounds, except as to the transference of money. As you are probably aware I have been very much dissatisfied with the character of the work that has been done in the reconstruction of the two terraces, but being very distrustful of my own knowledge of such things I could never shape it in such a way as to prove to myself that I was not making a mountain of a mole-hill. The whole thing has made me right sick. If we are to undertake this work with an architect who makes all sorts of errors in his strain sheets; with a superintendent like Echols, who has not verified any calculations; and another superintendent like Thornton who accepts the architects loose ideas of weights and strains and deems safe what, when brought to the tables of experienced facts, proves to be unsafe and another superintendent like the venerable Rector who has neither the time nor the tables nor probably the capacity to make reliable calculations the result will be that you and McCabe will be damned and properly damned for the balance of your lives and the venerable Rector will probably be hung & properly hung. As you may remember as I said before may Heaven bless all mixed Committees and save me the trouble of having so far to force my conscience as to bless them. Do pray burn this letter; it is written in such bad temper. I started in good humor enough but as the thing has worked upon me my gall has risen. I shall expect you on Friday and you and I and McCabe must talk these things over where we can do it without any feeling that we are treading upon other peoples toes and possibly finding fault where fault is not due. Send the papers back to me at once please. Mr. McDonald has not turned up here yet but we are expecting him every day.
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15Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W.C.N. Randolph to Mr. Gordon, Jan. 24, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I enclose you a letter from McCabe to myself and a copy of my reply thereto. I hope that you will give it a good deal of thought. To my mind it is exceedingly important. I received yours this morning. I am glad to hear the good account that Colonel Cutshaw and Colonel Douglas give of Mr. Whitely; and still with the impression that Thornton and Echols have, it might be dangerous to appoint him. This question of an Inspector is filled with many difficulties. General Craighill advises that we should leave the whole matter to the architect; Green Peyton who you & I trust very much thinks an Inspector would be a mistake; and yet I am perfectly certain that we ought to have somebody in charge of this work on behalf of the University. In fact in any building at the University there should be someone, an officer of the Institution, who would be responsible for it. Suppose Green Peyton were Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, how much trouble would you and I give ourselves about this matter? Not a bit! So I come to the point. Our Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds who is one of the finest fellows in the world, and a man of splendid intellect, is from habit, character of mind, and training, unfit for his position. He takes no interest in it; never can be found and is not doing his duty. Now I am not writing this with any harshness at all. I am just stating to you what I know to be facts. In addition, the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds is the proper Inspector of the work that goes ont at the University and if he was the best one in the world, he ought not to hold the dual position of member and servant of the Building Committee. I think, if you all two agree with me, that the solution of this matter is an easy one. I am satisfied that Echols is more than willing to give up the place as Superintendent; that he intends to do so at the end of the session and that he would be glad to do it now. Then it seems to me, that the wisest thing we can do is to select with great care an Inspector and when the Board meets let us then accept Mr. Echols' resignation and I think I can arrange that it will be offered, and let us select an appointee as Inspector Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. This seems to me to do away with all the objections to the appointment of a special Inspector. Now I myself, would be perfectly willing to take blindly and I don't I often say that, any man that H.D. Whitcomb, Colonel Cutshaw and Colonel Douglas, from a professional stand-point, knowing these facts, would recommend to us. Think this matter over; we cant take Thornton into our confidence about it. In the first place, no man can ever tell when he has an axe to grind for himself and then every thing filters through him to the Faculty and leads to lack of harmony between us. Mr. Davis came to me about the Ott matter today. I want to have a talk to you and McCabe about it when you come over. Please give this matter of Inspector a great deal of thought. I am perfectly satisfied that the master-wheel of this reconstruction machinery is sound; but there is a grating cog in a wheel that will be always worrying us and may bring us to a disgraceful break-down. Mary tells me to say to you, that if you come over on Saturday morning you must bring Margaret with you and let her spend the day with the baby. However, you must come on Friday evening as we must have a long talk.
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16Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W.C.N. Randolph to Mr. McCabe, June 22, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: A knowledge of your intention to visit Great Britain this summer has induced me to request that you will undertake a matter for the University of Va. By the recent fire, as you are aware, our library was almost a total loss; to replace our buildings lost at the same time has strained our finances to the utmost. We will have a sum left totally inadequate to supply our need of books — Our sister institutions in this country aided us from their own libraries to the extent of their power. It has occurred to me that Oxford and Cam- bridge actuated by the same motives of kinship and interest might aid us in getting the syndicates that control the Claren- don and Pitt presses to turn over to us some of their publications as a donation.
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17Author:  Smith, Mary StuartRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Mary Stuart Smith to Rosalie Thornton, May 3, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I have been wanting to write to you ever so long, but will not take up limited time and space with uninteresting excuses. I have simply overburdened myself, and have to cry "Mea Culpa!" in regard to many, many omissions of duty. I know you will be glad to hear that I got old Mr Cummings again at work upon our sections in the cemetery & it looks so neat and clean, walks all around it, included, that I only wish you could see it before the summer drought spoils everything. Of course I had to resow grass seed, for it just seems as if grass will not retain its hold there, on account of too much shade and the inevitable summer droughts.
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18Author:  Smythe, A. M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Mrs. A. M. Smythe to her cousin, Feb 17, 1837 concerning the sale of a family of slaves. [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I must beg a favor of you which I trust you will grant. at March court our little all will be sold for debt. You know how much I am attached to Sally and her children. attached to them because they are the best of slaves. I never knew so faithful and valu able a family of negroes. you have it in your power to pur chase them. if you do so I can leave the country with peace of mind. the first of April we will set out for the North Western territory, a howling Wilderneſs.
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19Author:  Thornton, W. M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W. M. Thornton to Carter Thornton, April 14, 1896; [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I sent off a long letter to mamma on yesterday. Tonight I hear that her second draft has come and so I shall scratch this note off for you and begin to think that you are really coming home again, when the money for your steamer tickets has to be sent on. I shall surely be glad to see you. The two troubled, sorrow- ful years seem very long and very lone- ly and I wonder now that I could brave a second and a worse one after the unhappy first. Today real dig- ging began for our new buildings. The other contracts are not yet let out and will not be until May. But it makes us all feel more cheerful to have any actual work going on. Jack had a card from Mrs. Stapleton this even- ing announcing her safe arrival at Hamburg. She is with you long since, of course, and you have extracted all her news. I trust she is more cheerful under the German skies and that the climate and life will be good for her. She is fond of music and will enjoy that, I know; and I think she will be glad to be with your mamma and Janet once more. Is it not queer how your mamma's little canary has perked up since he got home? He never sang a note from the day he left the UVa on his journey to Montana. A few days after I got him back I heard him apparently trying his throat, and now he wakes me almost every morning, warbling away as soon as the skies brighten— not so sweetly as of old, but still real singing again. He would be a little buzzard, however, if he did not sing now. The Spring is fairly opening, the air is soft and mild, and the mocking birds are fluting away for dear life. This little fellow is ashamed to be left out of the concert. I shall send your mamma two announcements which will inter- est and amuse her — one of Becnel's graduation as Doc- tor of Medicine at the Tulane (I told her of meeting him there) — the other of Mayberry's marriage to Miss Rhett of Charleston. I think that is doing pretty well for both of our old friends. The Dramatic Club had to postpone their Easter entertainment because of Jennie Randolph's illness. They telegraphed for Lizzie Harrison to take her place and Lizzie is to come; but she will need some time to learn the part and rehearse thoroughly and so the play was put off for two or three weeks. Mary Stuart went off yesterday to Roanoke on a visit and to be for a time under her Uncle Willie's professional care. The poor little child looks badly and I am afraid no doctor can do a great deal for her. Her cheerfulness and high spirit are undaunted however; she is always bright and gay and full of interest in life. Dearest love to all of you from the Doc up to mamma. Write me a line when you can. We are all well, and the various invalids of our community are all doing nicely.
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20Author:  Thornton, John T.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from John T. Thornton to Mrs. E. Rosalie Thornton, Oct. 27, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I write to let you know of a most fearful calamity which has befallen the dear old University. This morning I heard cries of fire and found that the Annex was in flames. Everyone was running to the Rotunda and soon a large crowd was assembled. No water could be gotten as high as the flames, only a miserable little stream of water about six feet in length came from the hose when at the level of the ground. In response to telegrams, Lynchburg and Richmond sent their engines by special trains, but the Lynchburg engine was delayed in the road and did not arrive within an hour of the expected time. I received a telegram from Richmond when the fire had been almost put out & wired back not to send the engine. Their was nothing to do but to try to keep the fire from Buckmaster's and Tuttle's houses and to save all that was within the Rotunda and annex. They tried to blow up the portico between the Annex and the rotunda in the hope that, if the engine should arrive in time, the lib Rotunda might be saved But all to no purpose. Soon the flames had gained possession of the Rotunda and nothing is now left standing but the bare and ruined walls. The boys worked like fiends to save all that was possible. Kent estimates that only 1/10 of the books was saved but he is wrong—In my opinion at least 1/3 or over were saved. The Austin Collection was lost entirely. The statue of Jefferson, Minor's bust, the pictures were saved in fairly good condition. The School of Athens was lost. Uncle Frank's valuable physical apparatus was carried out but the greater part so broken as to be practically useless. Only 25000 insurance wh. no where near covers the loss. Is estimated that 75000 will scarcely rebuild the rotunda and annex to say nothing of loss in books and instruments. No change in lectures which will continue as usual, the classes meeting in Wash Hall, Temperance Hall, Museum and Professor's offices. Papa is back in his old room — 5 W.L. where the chairman's office will be. Papa is so busy that he cannot write to you to night and told me to let you know of the loss. Am so exhausted myself that I cannot write much. The Professors are taking it bravely — not lamenting the past but making plans for the future. You can imagine how distressed everyone is. I myself, now that the excitement has worn off, am getting more and more miserable every minute and I can't expressed to you my sorrow. I love this old University with all my heart and if I who am comparatively young am so grieved what must be the distress of those old professor's who have worked for the University so long and lectured so often within those now ruined walls! What a number of blows have struck this University within the year you have been away! Misfortune after misfortune has crippled its usefulness and now that this crowning glory of the University, this building planned and built by Jefferson, this splendid library, our so famous copy of the School of Athens, the dear old clock that never kept time, should be destroyed seems the seems to be the crowning evil and the worst that this Nemesis who pursues us could let fall on our heads. Horrible! horrible! horrible! The things gets worse the more I think about it. However lamentations do no good. We can only depend on state aid and the generosity of our alumni. Have just opened a telegram from Geo. Anderson of Richmond saying that he wanted to start a subscription immediately. Telegrams of sympathy come from all sides. O'Ferral seems especially interested. That is a good sign that the state will help us. Some taking a cheerful view of the situation say that in the end it will benefit the U Va. by bringing her more before the people. Cannot offer any opinion on that subject. Thank you very much for the beautiful pair of gloves and more especially for thinking of me and of my 20th anniversary. Had intended to write you a special letter of thanks to-day but am too tired and miserable. Love to the children and yourself. Excuse hasty scribble, & believe me
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