MAXWELL TROAX CLARKE PAPERS, #259-z, 1854-1890
Chiefly letters to Clarke from his father, Colin Clarke, planter and lawyer of Gloucester
County, Virginia, describing hardships under Union occupation during the Civil War. Included
are references to slaves leaving the plantation and taking property with them (1862-1863); Union arrangements for hiring free blacks
(1862); a gift of $50.00 from Fanny, a black nurse, to her white
charge (1863); difficulties in purchasing clothes for blacks (1863); and "trouble" with blacks (1863).
