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Also, includes correspondence, 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts; and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family members, prominent medical practitioners, and business associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929, of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933), especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring signatures and letters of prominent American and English literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939), attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice, local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of other Wickham family members","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00016#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00016","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00016","_root_":"vihi_vih00016","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00016","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00016.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945","Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n         Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n         -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n         History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n         History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n         History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n         1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n         History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n         (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n         1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n         1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n         1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)","5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n         boxes)","Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n         the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n         skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n         political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n         numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n         descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.","The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n         correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n         prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n         Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n         Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n         lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n         western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n         Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n         Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n         concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n         an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n         Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n         Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n         Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n         35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n         Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n         enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n         [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n         cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n         serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n         Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n         Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n         and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n         practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n         Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n         unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n         on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n         Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n         individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n         Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n         actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n         in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n         Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n         federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n         primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n         integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n         Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n         honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n         President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n         George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n         affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n         (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n         condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n         large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n         at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n         list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n         borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n         1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n         on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n         undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n         that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n         on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n         Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n         John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n         physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n         children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n         and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n         will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n         Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n         Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n         and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n         of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n         1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n         and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n         two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n         Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n         of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n         correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n         Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n         \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n         Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n         County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n         Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n         of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n         1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n         Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n         Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n         Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n         featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n         (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n         \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n         of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n         with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n         (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n         clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n         recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n         records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n         (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n         letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n         Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n         bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n         Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n         lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n         Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n         court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n         legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n         University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n         President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n         Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n         County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n         \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n         1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n         are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n         draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n         executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n         deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n         father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n         of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n         returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n         4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n         his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n         two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n         Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n         correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n         concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n         S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n         Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n         Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n         Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n         Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n         (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n         John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n         abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n         University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n         (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n         letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n         and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n         George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n         Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n         references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n         Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n         law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n         W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n         etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n         Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n         merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n         8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n         checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n         accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n         concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n         include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n         speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n         eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n         examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n         1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n         abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n         John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n         lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n         partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n         \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n         accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n         mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n         and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n         comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n         follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n         portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n         lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n         concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n         miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n         \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n         father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n         transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n         Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n         proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n         (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n         of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n         Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n         Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n         receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n         Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n         the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n         residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n         of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n         two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n         postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n         Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n         (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n         letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n         Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n         marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n         to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n         abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n         1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n         1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n         verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n         Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n         written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n         newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n         Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n         represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n         primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n         her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n         Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n         Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n         Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n         contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n         the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n         correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n         [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n         Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n         the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n         Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n         inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n         of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n         her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n         (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n         notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n         Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n         petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n         Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n         bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n         letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n         Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n         also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n         Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n         correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n         of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n         at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n         1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n         Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n         academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n         extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n         October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n         John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n         concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n         plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n         agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n         Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n         Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n         proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n         Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n         [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n         T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n         Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n         (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n         a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n         Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n         Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n         Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n         Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n         others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n         whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n         eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n         married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n         correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n         largely to family members, prominent American and European\n         practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n         (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n         the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n         below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n         Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n         Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n         Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n         1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n         Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n         Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n         items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n         orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n         Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n         7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n         Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n         1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n         commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n         American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n         Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n         family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n         Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n         Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n         years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n         notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n         personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n         correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n         with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n         Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n         (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n         appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n         Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n         Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n         partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n         Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n         (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n         Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n         policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n         materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n         and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n         acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n         County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n         consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n         James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n         professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n         firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n         in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n         and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n         materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n         Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n         Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n         concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n         during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n         the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n         County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n         City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n         in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n         and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n         Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n         form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n         judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n         White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n         tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n         of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n         as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n         Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n         St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n         architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n         State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n         concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n         in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n         Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n         Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n         Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n         Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n         Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n         Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n         the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n         Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n         accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n         Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n         orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n         of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n         Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n         of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n         orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n         Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n         Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n         practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n         St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n         Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n         records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n         Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n         courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n         Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n         Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n         28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n         numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n         Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n         family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n         from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n         after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n         Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n         Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n         Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n         Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n         close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n         Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n         Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n         Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n         President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n         Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n         Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n         copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n         in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n         include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n         and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n         follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n         autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n         collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n         and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n         clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n         associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n         members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n         follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n         filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n         The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n         acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n         very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n         items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n         separate index of the documents removed from this second\n         volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n         include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n         newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n         around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n         Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n         information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n         1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n         concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n         \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n         Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n         verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n         Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n         survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n         1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n         1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n         14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n         Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n         Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n         and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n         1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n         make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n         Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n         Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n         Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n         family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n         concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n         Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n         Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n         Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n         Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n         Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n         Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n         School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n         found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n         of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n         a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n         Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n         career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n         mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n         University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n         and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n         reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n         and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n         concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n         1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n         miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n         letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n         Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n         Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n         (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.","Abstract: The collection includes\n         correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n         Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n         politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n         Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n         records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n         Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n         plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n         settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n         1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n         (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n         \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n         Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n         County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n         Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n         and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n         correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n         (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n         members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n         associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n         of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n         especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n         with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n         signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n         literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n         diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n         miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n         Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n         Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n         of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n         local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n         other Wickham family members","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Dr. Charles W. Porter and Mrs. Julia Wickham\n            Porter, Richmond, Va., in 1986. Accessioned 1 October\n            1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n         Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n         -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n         History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n         History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n         History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n         1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n         History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n         (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n         1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n         1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n         1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n         Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n         -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n         History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n         History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n         History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n         1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n         History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n         (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n         1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n         1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n         1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n         boxes)"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by document type or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n         the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n         skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n         political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n         numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n         descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n         the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n         skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n         political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n         numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n         descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n         correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n         prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n         Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n         Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n         lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n         western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n         Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n         Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n         concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n         an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n         Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n         Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n         Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n         35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n         Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n         enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n         [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n         cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n         serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n         Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n         Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n         and physician in Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n         practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n         Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n         unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n         on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n         Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n         individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n         Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n         actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n         in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n         Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n         federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n         primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n         integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n         Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n         honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n         President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n         George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n         affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n         (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n         condition and barely legible.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n         large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n         at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n         list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n         borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n         1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n         on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n         undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n         that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n         on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n         Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n         John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n         physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n         children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n         and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n         will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n         Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n         Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n         and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n         of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n         1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n         and a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n         two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n         Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n         of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n         correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n         Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n         \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n         Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n         County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n         Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n         of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n         1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n         Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n         Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n         Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n         featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n         (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n         \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n         of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n         with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n         (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n         clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n         recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n         records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n         (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n         letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n         Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n         bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n         Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n         lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n         Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n         court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n         legatees).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n         University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n         President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n         Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n         County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n         \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n         1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n         are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n         draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n         executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n         deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n         father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n         of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n         returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n         4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n         his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n         two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n         Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n         correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n         concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n         S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n         Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n         Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n         Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n         Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n         (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n         John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n         abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n         University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n         (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n         letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n         and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n         George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n         Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n         references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n         Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n         law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n         W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n         etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n         Taliaferro \u0026amp; Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n         merchants).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n         8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n         checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n         accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n         concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n         include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n         speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n         eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n         examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n         1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n         abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n         John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n         lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n         partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBell \u0026amp; Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n         \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n         accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n         mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n         and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n         comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n         follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n         portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n         lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n         concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n         miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n         \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n         father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n         transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n         Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n         proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n         (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n         of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n         Porcher, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n         Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n         receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n         Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n         the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n         residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n         of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n         two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n         postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n         Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n         (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n         letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n         Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n         marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n         to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n         abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n         1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n         1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n         verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n         Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n         written to Wickham \u0026amp; Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n         newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n         Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n         represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n         primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n         her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n         Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n         Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n         Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n         contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n         the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n         correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n         [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n         Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n         the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n         Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n         inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n         of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n         her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n         (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n         notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n         Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n         petitions and motions], and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n         Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n         bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n         letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n         Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n         also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n         Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n         correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n         of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n         at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n         1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n         Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n         academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n         extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n         October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n         John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n         concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n         plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n         agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n         Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n         Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n         proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n         Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n         [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n         T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n         Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n         (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n         a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n         Wickham's records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n         Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n         Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n         Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n         others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n         whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n         eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n         married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n         correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n         largely to family members, prominent American and European\n         practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n         (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n         the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n         below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n         Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n         Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n         Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n         1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n         Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n         Carolina local history also survive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n         items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n         orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n         Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n         7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n         Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n         1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n         commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n         American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n         Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n         family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n         Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n         Mazyck Porcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n         years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n         notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n         personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n         correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n         with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n         Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n         (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n         appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n         Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n         Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n         partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n         Wallace Mount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n         (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n         Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n         policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n         materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n         and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n         acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n         County, 1909- 1912.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n         consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n         James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n         professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n         firm of T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n         in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n         and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n         materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n         Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n         Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n         concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n         during his judicial career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n         the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n         County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n         City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n         in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n         and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n         Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n         form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n         judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n         White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n         tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n         of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n         as T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n         Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n         St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n         architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n         State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n         concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n         in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n         Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n         Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n         Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n         Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n         Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n         Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n         the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n         Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n         accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n         Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n         orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n         of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n         Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n         of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n         orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n         Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n         Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n         practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n         St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n         Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n         records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n         Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n         courthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n         Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n         Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n         28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n         numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n         Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n         family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n         from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n         after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n         Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n         Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n         Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n         Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n         close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n         Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n         Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n         Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n         President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n         Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n         Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n         copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n         in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n         include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n         and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n         follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n         autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n         collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n         and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n         clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n         associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n         members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n         follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n         filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n         The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n         acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n         very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n         items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n         separate index of the documents removed from this second\n         volume is also available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n         include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n         newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n         around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n         Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n         information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n         1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n         concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n         \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n         Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n         verse by Edmund Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n         Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n         survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n         1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n         1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n         14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n         Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n         Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n         and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n         1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n         make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n         Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n         Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n         Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n         family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n         concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n         Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n         Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n         Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n         Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n         Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n         Wilke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n         School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n         found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n         of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n         a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n         Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n         career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n         mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n         University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n         and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n         reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n         and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n         concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n         1923-1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n         miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n         letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n         Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n         Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n         (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n         correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n         prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n         Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n         Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n         lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n         western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n         Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n         Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n         concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n         an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n         Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n         Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n         Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n         35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n         Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n         enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n         [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n         cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n         serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n         Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n         Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n         and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n         practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n         Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n         unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n         on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n         Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n         individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n         Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n         actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n         in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n         Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n         federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n         primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n         integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n         Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n         honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n         President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n         George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n         affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n         (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n         condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n         large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n         at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n         list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n         borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n         1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n         on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n         undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n         that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n         on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n         Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n         John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n         physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n         children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n         and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n         will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n         Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n         Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n         and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n         of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n         1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n         and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n         two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n         Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n         of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n         correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n         Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n         \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n         Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n         County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n         Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n         of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n         1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n         Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n         Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n         Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n         featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n         (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n         \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n         of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n         with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n         (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n         clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n         recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n         records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n         (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n         letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n         Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n         bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n         Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n         lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n         Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n         court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n         legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n         University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n         President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n         Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n         County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n         \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n         1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n         are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n         draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n         executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n         deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n         father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n         of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n         returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n         4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n         his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n         two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n         Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n         correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n         concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n         S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n         Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n         Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n         Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n         Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n         (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n         John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n         abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n         University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n         (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n         letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n         and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n         George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n         Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n         references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n         Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n         law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n         W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n         etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n         Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n         merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n         8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n         checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n         accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n         concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n         include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n         speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n         eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n         examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n         1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n         abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n         John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n         lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n         partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n         \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n         accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n         mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n         and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n         comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n         follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n         portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n         lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n         concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n         miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n         \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n         father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n         transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n         Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n         proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n         (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n         of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n         Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n         Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n         receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n         Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n         the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n         residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n         of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n         two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n         postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n         Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n         (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n         letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n         Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n         marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n         to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n         abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n         1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n         1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n         verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n         Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n         written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n         newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n         Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n         represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n         primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n         her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n         Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n         Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n         Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n         contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n         the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n         correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n         [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n         Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n         the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n         Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n         inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n         of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n         her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n         (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n         notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n         Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n         petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n         Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n         bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n         letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n         Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n         also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n         Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n         correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n         of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n         at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n         1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n         Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n         academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n         extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n         October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n         John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n         concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n         plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n         agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n         Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n         Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n         proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n         Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n         [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n         T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n         Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n         (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n         a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n         Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n         Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n         Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n         Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n         others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n         whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n         eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n         married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n         correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n         largely to family members, prominent American and European\n         practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n         (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n         the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n         below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n         Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n         Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n         Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n         1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n         Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n         Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n         items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n         orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n         Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n         7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n         Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n         1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n         commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n         American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n         Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n         family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n         Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n         Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n         years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n         notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n         personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n         correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n         with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n         Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n         (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n         appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n         Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n         Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n         partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n         Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n         (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n         Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n         policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n         materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n         and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n         acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n         County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n         consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n         James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n         professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n         firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n         in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n         and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n         materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n         Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n         Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n         concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n         during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n         the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n         County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n         City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n         in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n         and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n         Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n         form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n         judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n         White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n         tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n         of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n         as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n         Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n         St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n         architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n         State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n         concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n         in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n         Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n         Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n         Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n         Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n         Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n         Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n         the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n         Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n         accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n         Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n         orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n         of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n         Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n         of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n         orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n         Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n         Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n         practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n         St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n         Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n         records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n         Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n         courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n         Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n         Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n         28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n         numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n         Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n         family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n         from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n         after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n         Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n         Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n         Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n         Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n         close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n         Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n         Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n         Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n         President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n         Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n         Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n         copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n         in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n         include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n         and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n         follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n         autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n         collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n         and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n         clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n         associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n         members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n         follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n         filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n         The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n         acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n         very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n         items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n         separate index of the documents removed from this second\n         volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n         include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n         newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n         around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n         Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n         information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n         1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n         concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n         \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n         Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n         verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n         Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n         survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n         1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n         1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n         14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n         Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n         Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n         and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n         1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n         make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n         Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n         Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n         Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n         family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n         concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n         Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n         Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n         Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n         Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n         Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n         Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n         School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n         found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n         of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n         a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n         Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n         career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n         mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n         University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n         and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n         reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n         and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n         concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n         1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n         miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n         letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n         Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n         Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n         (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eAbstract: The collection includes\n         correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n         Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n         politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n         Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n         records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n         Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n         plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n         settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n         1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n         (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n         \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n         Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n         County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n         Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n         and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n         correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n         (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n         members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n         associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n         of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n         especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n         with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n         signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n         literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n         diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n         miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n         Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n         Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n         of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n         local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n         other Wickham family members\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: The collection includes\n         correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n         Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n         politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n         Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n         records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n         Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n         plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n         settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n         1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n         (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n         \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n         Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n         County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n         Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n         and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n         correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n         (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n         members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n         associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n         of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n         especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n         with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n         signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n         literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n         diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n         miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n         Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n         Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n         of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n         local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n         other Wickham family members"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":42,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00016","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00016","_root_":"vihi_vih00016","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00016","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00016.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945","Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n         Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n         -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n         History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n         History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n         History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n         1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n         History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n         (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n         1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n         1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n         1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)","5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n         boxes)","Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n         the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n         skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n         political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n         numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n         descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.","The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n         correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n         prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n         Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n         Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n         lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n         western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n         Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n         Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n         concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n         an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n         Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n         Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n         Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n         35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n         Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n         enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n         [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n         cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n         serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n         Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n         Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n         and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n         practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n         Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n         unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n         on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n         Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n         individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n         Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n         actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n         in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n         Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n         federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n         primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n         integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n         Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n         honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n         President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n         George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n         affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n         (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n         condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n         large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n         at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n         list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n         borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n         1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n         on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n         undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n         that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n         on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n         Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n         John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n         physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n         children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n         and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n         will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n         Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n         Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n         and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n         of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n         1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n         and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n         two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n         Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n         of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n         correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n         Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n         \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n         Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n         County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n         Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n         of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n         1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n         Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n         Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n         Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n         featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n         (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n         \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n         of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n         with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n         (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n         clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n         recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n         records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n         (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n         letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n         Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n         bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n         Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n         lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n         Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n         court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n         legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n         University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n         President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n         Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n         County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n         \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n         1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n         are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n         draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n         executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n         deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n         father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n         of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n         returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n         4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n         his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n         two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n         Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n         correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n         concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n         S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n         Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n         Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n         Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n         Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n         (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n         John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n         abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n         University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n         (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n         letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n         and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n         George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n         Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n         references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n         Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n         law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n         W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n         etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n         Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n         merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n         8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n         checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n         accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n         concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n         include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n         speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n         eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n         examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n         1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n         abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n         John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n         lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n         partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n         \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n         accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n         mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n         and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n         comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n         follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n         portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n         lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n         concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n         miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n         \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n         father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n         transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n         Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n         proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n         (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n         of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n         Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n         Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n         receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n         Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n         the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n         residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n         of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n         two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n         postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n         Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n         (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n         letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n         Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n         marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n         to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n         abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n         1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n         1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n         verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n         Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n         written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n         newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n         Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n         represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n         primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n         her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n         Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n         Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n         Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n         contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n         the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n         correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n         [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n         Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n         the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n         Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n         inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n         of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n         her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n         (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n         notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n         Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n         petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n         Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n         bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n         letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n         Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n         also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n         Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n         correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n         of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n         at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n         1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n         Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n         academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n         extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n         October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n         John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n         concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n         plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n         agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n         Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n         Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n         proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n         Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n         [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n         T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n         Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n         (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n         a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n         Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n         Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n         Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n         Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n         others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n         whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n         eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n         married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n         correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n         largely to family members, prominent American and European\n         practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n         (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n         the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n         below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n         Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n         Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n         Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n         1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n         Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n         Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n         items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n         orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n         Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n         7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n         Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n         1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n         commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n         American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n         Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n         family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n         Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n         Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n         years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n         notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n         personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n         correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n         with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n         Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n         (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n         appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n         Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n         Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n         partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n         Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n         (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n         Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n         policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n         materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n         and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n         acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n         County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n         consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n         James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n         professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n         firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n         in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n         and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n         materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n         Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n         Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n         concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n         during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n         the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n         County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n         City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n         in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n         and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n         Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n         form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n         judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n         White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n         tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n         of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n         as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n         Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n         St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n         architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n         State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n         concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n         in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n         Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n         Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n         Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n         Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n         Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n         Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n         the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n         Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n         accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n         Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n         orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n         of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n         Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n         of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n         orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n         Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n         Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n         practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n         St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n         Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n         records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n         Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n         courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n         Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n         Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n         28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n         numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n         Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n         family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n         from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n         after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n         Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n         Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n         Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n         Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n         close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n         Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n         Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n         Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n         President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n         Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n         Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n         copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n         in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n         include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n         and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n         follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n         autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n         collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n         and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n         clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n         associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n         members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n         follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n         filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n         The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n         acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n         very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n         items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n         separate index of the documents removed from this second\n         volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n         include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n         newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n         around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n         Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n         information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n         1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n         concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n         \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n         Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n         verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n         Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n         survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n         1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n         1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n         14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n         Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n         Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n         and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n         1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n         make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n         Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n         Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n         Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n         family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n         concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n         Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n         Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n         Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n         Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n         Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n         Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n         School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n         found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n         of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n         a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n         Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n         career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n         mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n         University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n         and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n         reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n         and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n         concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n         1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n         miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n         letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n         Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n         Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n         (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.","Abstract: The collection includes\n         correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n         Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n         politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n         Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n         records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n         Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n         plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n         settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n         1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n         (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n         \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n         Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n         County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n         Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n         and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n         correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n         (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n         members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n         associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n         of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n         especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n         with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n         signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n         literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n         diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n         miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n         Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n         Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n         of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n         local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n         other Wickham family members","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Dr. Charles W. Porter and Mrs. Julia Wickham\n            Porter, Richmond, Va., in 1986. Accessioned 1 October\n            1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n         Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n         -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n         History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n         History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n         History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n         1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n         History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. 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Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n         (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n         1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n         1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n         1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n         boxes)"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by document type or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n         the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n         skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n         political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n         numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n         descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n         the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n         skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n         political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n         numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n         descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n         correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n         prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n         Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n         Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n         lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n         western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n         Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n         Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n         concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n         an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n         Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n         Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n         Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n         35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n         Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n         enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n         [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n         cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n         serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n         Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n         Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n         and physician in Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n         practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n         Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n         unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n         on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n         Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n         individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n         Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n         actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n         in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n         Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n         federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n         primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n         integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n         Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n         honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n         President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n         George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n         affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n         (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n         condition and barely legible.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n         large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n         at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n         list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n         borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n         1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n         on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n         undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n         that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n         on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n         Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n         John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n         physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n         children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n         and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n         will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n         Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n         Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n         and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n         of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n         1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n         and a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n         two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n         Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n         of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n         correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n         Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n         \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n         Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n         County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n         Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n         of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n         1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n         Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n         Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n         Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n         featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n         (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n         \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n         of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n         with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n         (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n         clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n         recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n         records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n         (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n         letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n         Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n         bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n         Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n         lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n         Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n         court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n         legatees).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n         University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n         President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n         Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n         County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n         \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n         1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n         are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n         draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n         executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n         deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n         father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n         of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n         returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n         4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n         his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n         two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n         Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n         correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n         concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n         S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n         Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n         Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n         Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n         Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n         (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n         John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n         abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n         University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n         (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n         letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n         and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n         George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n         Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n         references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n         Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n         law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n         W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n         etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n         Taliaferro \u0026amp; Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n         merchants).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n         8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n         checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n         accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n         concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n         include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n         speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n         eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n         examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n         1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n         abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n         John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n         lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n         partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBell \u0026amp; Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n         \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n         accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n         mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n         and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n         comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n         follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n         portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n         lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n         concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n         miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n         \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n         father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n         transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n         Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n         proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n         (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n         of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n         Porcher, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n         Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n         receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n         Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n         the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n         residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n         of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n         two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n         postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n         Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n         (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n         letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n         Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n         marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n         to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n         abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n         1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n         1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n         verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n         Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n         written to Wickham \u0026amp; Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n         newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n         Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n         represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n         primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n         her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n         Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n         Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n         Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n         contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n         the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n         correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n         [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n         Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n         the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n         Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n         inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n         of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n         her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n         (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n         notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n         Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n         petitions and motions], and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n         Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n         bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n         letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n         Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n         also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n         Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n         correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n         of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n         at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n         1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n         Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n         academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n         extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n         October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n         John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n         concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n         plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n         agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n         Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n         Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n         proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n         Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n         [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n         T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n         Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n         (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n         a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n         Wickham's records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n         Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n         Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n         Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n         others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n         whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n         eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n         married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n         correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n         largely to family members, prominent American and European\n         practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n         (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n         the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n         below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n         Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n         Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n         Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n         1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n         Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n         Carolina local history also survive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n         items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n         orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n         Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n         7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n         Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n         1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n         commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n         American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n         Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n         family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n         Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n         Mazyck Porcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n         years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n         notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n         personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n         correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n         with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n         Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n         (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n         appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n         Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n         Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n         partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n         Wallace Mount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n         (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n         Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n         policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n         materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n         and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n         acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n         County, 1909- 1912.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n         consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n         James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n         professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n         firm of T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n         in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n         and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n         materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n         Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n         Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n         concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n         during his judicial career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n         the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n         County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n         City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n         in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n         and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n         Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n         form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n         judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n         White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n         tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n         of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n         as T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n         Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n         St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n         architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n         State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n         concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n         in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n         Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n         Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n         Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n         Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n         Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n         Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n         the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n         Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n         accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n         Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n         orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n         of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n         Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n         of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n         orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n         Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n         Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n         practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n         St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n         Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n         records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n         Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n         courthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n         Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n         Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n         28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n         numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n         Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n         family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n         from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n         after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n         Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n         Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n         Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n         Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n         close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n         Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n         Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n         Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n         President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n         Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n         Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n         copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n         in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n         include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n         and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n         follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n         autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n         collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n         and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n         clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n         associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n         members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n         follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n         filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n         The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n         acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n         very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n         items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n         separate index of the documents removed from this second\n         volume is also available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n         include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n         newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n         around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n         Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n         information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n         1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n         concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n         \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n         Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n         verse by Edmund Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n         Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n         survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n         1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n         1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n         14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n         Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n         Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n         and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n         1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n         make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n         Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n         Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n         Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n         family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n         concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n         Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n         Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n         Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n         Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n         Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n         Wilke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n         School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n         found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n         of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n         a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n         Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n         career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n         mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n         University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n         and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n         reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n         and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n         concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n         1923-1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n         miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n         letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n         Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n         Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n         (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n         correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n         prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n         Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n         Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n         lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n         western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n         Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n         Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n         concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n         an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n         Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n         Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n         Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n         35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n         Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n         enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n         [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n         cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n         serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n         Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n         Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n         and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n         practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n         Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n         unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n         on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n         Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n         individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n         Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n         actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n         in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n         Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n         federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n         primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n         integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n         Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n         honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n         President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n         George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n         affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n         (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n         condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n         large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n         at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n         list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n         borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n         1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n         on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n         undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n         that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n         on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n         Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n         John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n         physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n         (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n         children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n         and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n         will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n         Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n         Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n         and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n         of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n         1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n         and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n         two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n         Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n         of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n         correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n         Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n         \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n         Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n         County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n         Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n         of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n         1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n         Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n         Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n         Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n         featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n         (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n         \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n         Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n         of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n         with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n         (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n         clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n         recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n         records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n         (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n         letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n         Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n         bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n         Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n         lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n         Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n         court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n         legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n         University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n         President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n         Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n         County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n         \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n         1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n         are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n         draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n         executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n         deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n         father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n         of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n         returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n         4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n         his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n         two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n         Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n         correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n         concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n         S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n         Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n         Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n         Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n         Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n         (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n         John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n         abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n         University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n         (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n         letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n         and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n         George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n         Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n         references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n         Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n         law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n         W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n         etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n         Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n         merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n         8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n         checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n         accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n         concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n         include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n         speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n         eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n         examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n         1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n         abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n         John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n         lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n         partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n         \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n         accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n         mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n         and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n         comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n         follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n         portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n         lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n         concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n         miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n         \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n         father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n         transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n         Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n         proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n         (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n         of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n         Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n         Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n         receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n         Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n         the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n         residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n         of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n         two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n         postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n         Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n         (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n         letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n         Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n         marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n         to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n         abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n         1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n         1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n         verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n         Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n         written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n         newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n         Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n         represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n         primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n         her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n         Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n         Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n         Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n         contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n         the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n         correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n         [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n         Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n         the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n         Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n         inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n         of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n         her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n         (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n         notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n         Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n         petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n         Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n         bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n         letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n         Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n         also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n         Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n         correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n         of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n         (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n         at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n         1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n         Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n         academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n         extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n         October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n         John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n         concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n         plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n         agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n         Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n         Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n         proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n         Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n         [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n         T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n         Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n         (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n         a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n         Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n         Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n         Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n         Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n         others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n         whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n         eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n         married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n         correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n         largely to family members, prominent American and European\n         practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n         (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n         the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n         below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n         Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n         Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n         Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n         Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n         1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n         Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n         Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n         items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n         orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n         Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n         7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n         Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n         1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n         commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n         American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n         Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n         family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n         Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n         Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n         years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n         notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n         personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n         correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n         with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n         Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n         (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n         appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n         Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n         Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n         partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n         Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n         (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n         Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n         policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n         materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n         and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n         acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n         County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n         consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n         James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n         professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n         firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n         in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n         and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n         materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n         Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n         Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n         concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n         during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n         the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n         County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n         City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n         in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n         and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n         Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n         form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n         judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n         White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n         tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n         of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n         as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n         Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n         St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n         architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n         State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n         concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n         in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n         Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n         Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n         Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n         Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n         Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n         Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n         the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n         Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n         accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n         Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n         orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n         of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n         Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n         of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n         orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n         Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n         Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n         practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n         St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n         Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n         records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n         Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n         courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n         Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n         Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n         28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n         numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n         Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n         family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n         from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n         after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n         Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n         Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n         Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n         Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n         close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n         Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n         Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n         Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n         Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n         President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n         Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n         Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n         copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n         in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n         include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n         and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n         follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n         autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n         collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n         and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n         clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n         associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n         members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n         follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n         filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n         The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n         acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n         very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n         items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n         separate index of the documents removed from this second\n         volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n         include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n         newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n         around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n         Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n         information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n         1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n         concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n         \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n         Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n         verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n         Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n         survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n         1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n         1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n         14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n         Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n         Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n         and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n         1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n         make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n         Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n         Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n         Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n         family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n         concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n         Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n         Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n         Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n         Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n         Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n         Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n         School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n         found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n         of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n         a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n         Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n         career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n         mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n         University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n         and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n         reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n         and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n         concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n         1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n         miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n         letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n         Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n         Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n         (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eAbstract: The collection includes\n         correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n         Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n         politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n         Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n         records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n         Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n         plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n         settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n         1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n         (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n         \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n         Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n         County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n         Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n         and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n         correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n         (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n         members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n         associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n         of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n         especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n         with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n         signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n         literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n         diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n         miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n         Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n         Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n         of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n         local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n         other Wickham family members\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: The collection includes\n         correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n         Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n         politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n         Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n         records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n         Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n         plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n         settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n         1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n         (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n         \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n         Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n         County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n         Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n         and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n         correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n         (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n         members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n         associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n         of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n         especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n         with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n         signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n         literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n         diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n         miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n         attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n         Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n         Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n         of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n         local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n         Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n         other Wickham family 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