{"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Wickham%2C+John%2C+1763-1839.\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026view=compact","last":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Wickham%2C+John%2C+1763-1839.\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026page=1\u0026view=compact"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":2,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"vihi_vih00017","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00017#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The collection includes correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills, correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman; correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\" farm records; and materials concerning the management of \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913, financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks, correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00017#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00017","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00017","_root_":"vihi_vih00017","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00017","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00017.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977","Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n         century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n         -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n         History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n         1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n         County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n         1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n         1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880.","11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n         boxes).","Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by date or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n         the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n         collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n         wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n         William Fanning Wickham.","The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n         (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n         Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n         father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n         ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n         of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n         seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n         Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n         concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n         County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n         Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n         family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n         correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n         MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n         another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n         the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n         his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n         eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n         this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n         Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n         in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n         Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n         (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n         American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n         Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n         governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n         Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n         personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n         1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n         the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n         while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n         1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n         Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n         travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n         plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n         Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n         his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n         papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n         records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n         of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n         Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n         part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n         slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n         a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n         trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n         Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n         (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n         the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n         auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n         King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n         Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n         argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n         counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n         U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n         constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n         trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n         benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n         1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n         confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n         Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n         used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n         handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n         Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n         Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n         sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n         and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n         Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n         eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n         McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n         died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n         litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n         lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n         1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n         with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n         Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n         Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n         Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n         Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n         William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n         and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n         a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n         accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n         Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n         Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n         in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n         Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n         of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n         concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n         (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n         of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n         established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n         Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n         E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n         (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n         the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n         bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n         Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n         1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n         Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n         includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n         Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n         \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n         County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n         period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n         Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n         Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n         F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n         Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n         on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n         release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n         County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n         Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n         Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n         William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n         etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n         of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n         attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n         Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n         and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n         volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n         personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n         the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n         local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n         slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n         plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n         Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n         5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n         Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n         runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n         Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n         Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n         on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n         reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n         1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n         1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n         Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n         Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n         1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n         correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n         (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n         Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n         postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n         stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n         William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n         the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n         George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n         condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n         Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n         acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n         other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n         by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n         1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n         stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n         Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n         and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n         plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n         totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n         report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n         evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n         1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n         Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n         and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n         Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n         plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n         of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n         H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n         of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n         1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n         of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n         to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n         values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n         1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n         of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n         and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n         for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n         Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n         Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n         farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n         between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n         with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n         plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n         concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n         \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n         Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n         Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n         trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n         plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n         Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n         Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n         a number of years but returned to England before the American\n         Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n         sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n         Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n         vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n         Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n         continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n         war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n         by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n         their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n         County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n         by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n         administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n         when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n         property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n         the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n         trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n         members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n         blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n         issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n         the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n         purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n         had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n         William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n         attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n         David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n         Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n         affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n         and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n         former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n         include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n         1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n         Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n         and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n         Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n         trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n         Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n         Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n         decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n         commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n         Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n         heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n         Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n         under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n         of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n         the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n         miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n         William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n         or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n         after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n         book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n         of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n         concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n         lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n         Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n         1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n         materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n         deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n         Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n         rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n         of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n         Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n         (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n         certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n         certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n         and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n         by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n         and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n         commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n         primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n         English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n         reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n         consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n         constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n         Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n         inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n         Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n         \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n         Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n         accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n         and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n         Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n         early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n         local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n         cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n         war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n         Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n         very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n         the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n         in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n         materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n         (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n         this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n         largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n         Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n         have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n         appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n         addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n         Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n         of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n         John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n         Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n         Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n         Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n         Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n         at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n         Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n         James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n         Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n         Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n         and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n         plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n         party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n         especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n         addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n         Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n         Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n         of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n         Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n         artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n         Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n         for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n         John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n         Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n         Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n         of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n         activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n         Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n         written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n         concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n         elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n         President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n         Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n         Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n         the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n         letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n         Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n         1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n         ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n         Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n         Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n         (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n         the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n         Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n         Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n         Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n         Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n         Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n         account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n         \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n         scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n         years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n         shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n         Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n         \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n         and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n         managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n         folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n         added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n         Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n         agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n         the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n         written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n         several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n         fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n         laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n         concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n         river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n         for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n         materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n         trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n         Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n         concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n         N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n         Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n         Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n         livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n         Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n         1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n         Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n         plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n         and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n         of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n         Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n         (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n         Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n         that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n         Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n         attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n         folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n         autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n         biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n         contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n         Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n         Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n         Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n         and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n         with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n         maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n         contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n         rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n         records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n         marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n         and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n         of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n         Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n         Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n         activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n         his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n         Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n         Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n         William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n         concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n         Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n         as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n         service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n         concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n         an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n         in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n         Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n         C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n         records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n         of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n         reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n         fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n         miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n         the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n         newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n         Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n         Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n         Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n         letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n         career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n         deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n         policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n         Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n         broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n         Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n         a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n         Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n         used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n         certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n         Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n         Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n         and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n         John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n         will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n         to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n         from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n         Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n         Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n         Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n         obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n         and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n         Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n         wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n         Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n         Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n         mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n         primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n         concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n         period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n         1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n         Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n         genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n         Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n         estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n         Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n         up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n         will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n         Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n         (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n         etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n         regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n         (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n         report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n         Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n         of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n         Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n         Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n         Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n         Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n         numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n         correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n         contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n         Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n         complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n         accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n         Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n         lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n         William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n         deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n         Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n         concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n         \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n         \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n         of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n         memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n         notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n         Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n         an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n         Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n         and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n         series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n         the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n         personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n         politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n         law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n         Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n         Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n         Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n         papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n         each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n         Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n         (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n         Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n         Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n         Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n         Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n         Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n         Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n         management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n         Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n         largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n         some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n         letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n         correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n         Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n         Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n         of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n         John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n         Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n         attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n         Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n         Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n         (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n         his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n         University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n         and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n         Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n         1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n         also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n         canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n         properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n         Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n         North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n         (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n         that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n         records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n         include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n         in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n         additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n         1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n         boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n         (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n         the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n         Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n         correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n         contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n         manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n         certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n         College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n         members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n         signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n         diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n         Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n         and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n         by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n         Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n         Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n         certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n         newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n         clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n         Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n         certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n         concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n         materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n         County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n         (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n         of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n         1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n         Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n         personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n         concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n         Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n         life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n         Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n         speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n         written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n         examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n         Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n         courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n         electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n         address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n         call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n         Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n         1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n         addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n         veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n         (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n         1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n         Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n         The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n         (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n         of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n         the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n         roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n         Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n         Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n         Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n         and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n         political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n         Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n         assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n         is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n         and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n         concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n         Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n         Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n         40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n         and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n         to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n         72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n         Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n         Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n         reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n         of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n         chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n         tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n         politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n         Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n         senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n         to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n         articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n         business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n         celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n         James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n         (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n         92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n         Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n         the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n         House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n         Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n         letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n         University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n         concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n         Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n         Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n         included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n         and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n         clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n         socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n         Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n         speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n         September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n         Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n         November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n         1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n         mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n         materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n         Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n         1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n         Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n         Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n         incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n         Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n         as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n         (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n         deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n         property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n         covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n         Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n         Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n         County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n         taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n         cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n         history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n         and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n         on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n         Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n         includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n         Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n         attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n         clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n         Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n         concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n         1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n         (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n         to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n         of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n         lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n         They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n         tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n         correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n         Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n         Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n         account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n         Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n         and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n         A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n         West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n         Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n         appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n         of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n         filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n         agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n         Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n         married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n         dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n         members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n         of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n         Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n         George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n         Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n         while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n         George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n         (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n         VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n         (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n         passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n         books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n         1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n         personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n         follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n         kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n         payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n         loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n         agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n         Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n         1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n         rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n         Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n         Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n         and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n         were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n         Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n         124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n         properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n         1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n         of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n         ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n         Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n         firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n         political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n         E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n         Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n         items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n         Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n         great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n         state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n         Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n         history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n         pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n         15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n         documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n         Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n         scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n         \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n         Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n         developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n         bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n         plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n         Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n         Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n         Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n         etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n         Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n         1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n         projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n         their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n         an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n         pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n         vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n         guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n         Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n         1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n         William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n         diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n         visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n         Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n         membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n         Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n         issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n         Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n         Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n         recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n         condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n         death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n         Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n         trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n         materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n         Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n         letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n         written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n         military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n         officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n         includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n         1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n         estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n         Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n         Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n         1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n         Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n         last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n         the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n         years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n         hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n         retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n         captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n         communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n         Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n         and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n         naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n         George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n         grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n         1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n         Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n         Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n         the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n         Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n         concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n         orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n         concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n         Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n         Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n         address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n         concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n         comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n         R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n         LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n         1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n         Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n         invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n         and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n         (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n         became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n         this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n         reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n         invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n         notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n         (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n         the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n         Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n         [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n         album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n         Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n         Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)","The collection includes\n         correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n         Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n         concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n         correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n         materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n         diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n         operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n         events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n         correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n         materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n         of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n         contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n         and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n         correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n         \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n         Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n         financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n         Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n         correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n         and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n         records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n         other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Credilla B. W. Bordley, Ashland, Va., and\n            Lawrence V. M. Wickham, Hanover, Va., in 1987. Accessioned\n            22 July 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n         century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n         -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n         History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n         1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n         County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n         1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n         1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n         century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n         -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n         History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n         1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n         County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n         1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n         1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n         boxes)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by date or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by date or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n         the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n         collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n         wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n         William Fanning Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n         the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n         collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n         wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n         William Fanning Wickham."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n         (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n         Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n         father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n         ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n         of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n         seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n         Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n         concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n         County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n         Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n         family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n         correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n         MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n         another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n         the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n         his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n         eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n         this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n         Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n         in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n         Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n         (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n         American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n         Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n         governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n         Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n         personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n         1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n         the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n         while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n         1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n         Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n         travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n         plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n         Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n         his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n         papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n         records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n         of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n         Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n         part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n         slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n         a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n         trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n         Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n         (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n         the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n         auction of these lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n         King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n         Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n         argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n         counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n         U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n         constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n         trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n         benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n         1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n         confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n         Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n         used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n         handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n         Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n         Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n         sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n         and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n         Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n         eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n         McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n         died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n         litigation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n         lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n         1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n         with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n         Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n         Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n         Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n         Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n         William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n         and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n         a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n         accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n         Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n         Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n         in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n         Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n         of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n         concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n         (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n         of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n         established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n         Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n         E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n         (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n         the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n         bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n         Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n         1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n         Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n         includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n         Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n         \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n         County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n         period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n         Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n         Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n         F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n         Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n         on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n         release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n         County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n         Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n         Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n         William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n         etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n         of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4, containing the personal records of William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n         attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n         Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n         and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n         volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n         personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n         the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n         local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n         slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n         plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n         Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n         5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n         Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n         runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n         Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n         Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n         on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n         reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n         1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n         1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n         Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n         Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n         1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n         correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n         (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n         Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n         postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n         stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n         William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n         the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n         George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n         condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n         Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n         acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n         other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n         by Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n         1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n         stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n         Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n         and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n         plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n         totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n         report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n         evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n         1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n         Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n         and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n         Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n         plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n         of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n         H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n         of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n         1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n         of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n         to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n         values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n         1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n         of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n         and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n         for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n         Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n         Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n         farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n         between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n         with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n         plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n         concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n         \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n         Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n         Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n         trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n         plats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the most interesting matters handled by William\n         Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n         Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n         a number of years but returned to England before the American\n         Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n         sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n         Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n         vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n         Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n         continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n         war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n         by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n         their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n         County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n         by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n         administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n         when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n         property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n         the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n         trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n         members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n         blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n         issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n         the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n         purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n         had no right to alienate themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n         William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n         attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n         David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n         Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n         affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n         and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n         former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n         include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n         1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n         Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n         and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n         Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n         trustees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n         Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n         Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n         decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n         commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n         Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n         heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n         Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n         under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n         of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n         the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n         miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n         William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n         or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n         after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n         book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n         of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n         concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n         lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n         Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n         1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n         materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n         deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n         Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n         rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n         of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n         Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n         (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n         certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n         certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n         and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n         by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n         and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n         commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n         primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n         English counties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n         reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n         consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n         constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n         Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n         inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n         Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n         \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n         Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n         accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n         and bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n         Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n         early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n         local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n         cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n         war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n         Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n         very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n         the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n         in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n         materials are represented in Series 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn important group of three postwar letterbooks\n         (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n         this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n         largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n         Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n         have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n         appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n         addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n         Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n         of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n         John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n         Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n         Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n         Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n         Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n         at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n         Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n         James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n         Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n         Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n         and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n         plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n         party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n         especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n         addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n         Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n         Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n         of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n         Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n         artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n         Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n         for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n         John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n         Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n         Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n         of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n         activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n         Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n         written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n         concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n         elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n         President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n         Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n         Samuel M. Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n         the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n         letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n         Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n         1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n         ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n         Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n         Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n         (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n         the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n         Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n         Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n         Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n         Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n         Fanning, and Coffin families).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n         account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n         \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n         scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n         years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n         shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n         Hill,\" and furnishing the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n         \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n         and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n         managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n         folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n         added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n         Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n         agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n         the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n         written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n         several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n         fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n         laborers; and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n         concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n         river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n         for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n         materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n         trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n         Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n         concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n         N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n         Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n         Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n         livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n         Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n         1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n         Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n         plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n         and inventories of stock and equipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n         of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n         Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n         (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n         Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n         that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n         Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n         attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n         folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n         autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n         biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n         contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n         Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n         Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n         Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n         and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n         with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n         maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n         contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n         rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n         records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n         marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n         and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n         of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n         Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n         Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n         activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n         his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n         Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n         Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n         William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n         concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n         Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n         as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n         service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n         concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n         an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n         in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n         Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n         C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n         records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n         of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n         reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n         fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n         miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n         the Richmond City Railway Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n         newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n         Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n         Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n         Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n         letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n         career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n         deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n         policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n         Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n         broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n         Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n         a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n         Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n         used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n         certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n         Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n         Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n         and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n         John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n         will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n         to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n         from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n         Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n         Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n         Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n         obituary notices and newspaper editorials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n         and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n         Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n         wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n         Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n         Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n         mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n         primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n         concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n         period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n         1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n         Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n         genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n         Taylor families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n         estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n         Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n         up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n         will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n         Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n         (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n         etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n         regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n         (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n         report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n         Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n         of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n         Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n         Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n         Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n         Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n         numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n         correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n         contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n         Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n         complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n         accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n         Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n         lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n         William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n         deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n         Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n         concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n         \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n         \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n         of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n         memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n         notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n         Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n         an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n         Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n         and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n         series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n         the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n         personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n         politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n         law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n         Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n         Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n         Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n         papers make up Series 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlong with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n         each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n         Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n         (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n         Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n         Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n         Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n         Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n         Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n         Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n         management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n         Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n         largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n         some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n         letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n         correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n         Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n         Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n         of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n         John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n         Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n         attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n         Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n         Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n         (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n         his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n         University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n         and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n         Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n         1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n         also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n         canceled checks before 1931).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n         properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n         Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n         North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n         (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n         that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n         records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n         include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n         in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n         additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n         1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n         boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n         (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n         the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n         Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n         correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n         contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n         manager.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n         certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n         College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n         members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n         signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n         diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n         Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n         and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n         by Washington and Lee University, 1935.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n         Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n         Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n         certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n         newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n         clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n         Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n         certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n         concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n         materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n         County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n         (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n         of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n         1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n         Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n         personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n         concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n         Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n         life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n         Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n         speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n         written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n         examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n         Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n         courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n         electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n         address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n         call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n         Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n         1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n         addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n         veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n         (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n         1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n         Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n         The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n         (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n         of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n         the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n         roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n         Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n         Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n         Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n         and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n         political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n         Confederate veterans' associations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n         assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n         is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n         and/or outstanding contents:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n         concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n         Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n         Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n         40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n         and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n         to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n         72).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n         Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n         Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n         reunions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n         of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n         chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n         tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n         politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n         Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n         senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n         to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n         articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n         business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n         celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n         James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n         (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n         92).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n         Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n         the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n         House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n         Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n         letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n         University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n         concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n         Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n         Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n         included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n         and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n         clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n         socialite.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n         Democratic politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n         speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n         September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n         Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n         November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n         1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n         mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n         materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n         Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n         1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n         Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n         Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n         incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n         Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n         as an officer).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n         (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n         deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n         property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n         covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n         Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n         Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n         County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n         taxes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n         cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n         history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n         and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n         on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n         Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n         includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n         Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n         attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n         clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n         Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n         concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n         1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n         (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n         to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n         of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n         lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n         They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n         tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n         correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n         Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n         Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n         account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n         Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n         and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n         A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n         West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n         Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n         appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n         of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n         filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n         agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n         Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n         married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n         dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n         members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n         of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n         Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n         George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n         Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n         while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n         George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n         (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n         VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n         (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n         passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n         books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n         1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n         personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n         follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n         kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n         payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n         loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n         agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n         Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n         1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n         rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n         Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n         Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n         and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n         were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n         Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n         124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n         properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n         1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n         of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n         ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n         Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n         firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n         political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n         E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n         Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n         items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n         Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n         great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n         state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n         Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n         history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n         pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n         15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n         documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n         Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n         scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n         \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n         Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n         developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n         bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n         plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n         Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n         Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n         Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n         etal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n         Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n         1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n         projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n         their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n         an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n         pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n         vestry; and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n         guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n         Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n         1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n         William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n         diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n         visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n         Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n         membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n         Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n         issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n         Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n         Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n         recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n         condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n         death in 1952 complete Box 48.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n         Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n         trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n         materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n         Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n         letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n         written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n         military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n         officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n         includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n         1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n         estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n         Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n         Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n         1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n         Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n         last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n         the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n         years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n         hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n         retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n         captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n         communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n         Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n         and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n         naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n         George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n         grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n         1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n         Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n         Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n         the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n         Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n         concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n         orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n         concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n         Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n         Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n         address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n         concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n         comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n         R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n         LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n         1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n         Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n         invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n         and collected newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n         (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n         became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n         this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n         reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n         invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n         notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n         (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n         the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n         Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n         [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n         album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n         Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n         Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n         (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n         Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n         father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n         ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n         of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n         seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n         Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n         concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n         County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n         Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n         family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n         correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n         MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n         another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n         the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n         his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n         eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n         this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n         Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n         in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n         Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n         (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n         American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n         Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n         governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n         Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n         personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n         1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n         the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n         while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n         1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n         Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n         travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n         plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n         Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n         his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n         papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n         records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n         of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n         Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n         part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n         slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n         a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n         trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n         Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n         (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n         the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n         auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n         King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n         Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n         argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n         counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n         U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n         constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n         trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n         benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n         1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n         confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n         Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n         used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n         handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n         Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n         Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n         sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n         and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n         Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n         eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n         McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n         died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n         litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n         lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n         1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n         with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n         Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n         Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n         Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n         Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n         William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n         and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n         a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n         accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n         Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n         Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n         in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n         Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n         of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n         concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n         (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n         of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n         established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n         Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n         E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n         (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n         the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n         bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n         Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n         1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n         Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n         includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n         Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n         \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n         County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n         period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n         Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n         Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n         F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n         Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n         on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n         release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n         County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n         Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n         Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n         William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n         etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n         of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n         attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n         Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n         and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n         volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n         personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n         the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n         local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n         slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n         plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n         Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n         5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n         Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n         runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n         Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n         Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n         on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n         reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n         1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n         1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n         Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n         Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n         1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n         correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n         (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n         Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n         postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n         stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n         William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n         the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n         George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n         condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n         Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n         acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n         other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n         by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n         1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n         stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n         Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n         and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n         plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n         totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n         report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n         evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n         1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n         Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n         and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n         Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n         plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n         of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n         H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n         of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n         1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n         of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n         to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n         values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n         1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n         of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n         and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n         for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n         Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n         Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n         farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n         between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n         with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n         plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n         concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n         \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n         Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n         Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n         trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n         plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n         Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n         Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n         a number of years but returned to England before the American\n         Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n         sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n         Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n         vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n         Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n         continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n         war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n         by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n         their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n         County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n         by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n         administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n         when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n         property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n         the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n         trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n         members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n         blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n         issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n         the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n         purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n         had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n         William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n         attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n         David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n         Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n         affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n         and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n         former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n         include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n         1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n         Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n         and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n         Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n         trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n         Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n         Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n         decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n         commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n         Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n         heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n         Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n         under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n         of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n         the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n         miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n         William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n         or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n         after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n         book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n         of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n         concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n         lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n         Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n         1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n         materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n         deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n         Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n         rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n         of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n         Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n         (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n         certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n         certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n         and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n         by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n         and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n         commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n         primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n         English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n         reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n         consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n         constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n         Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n         inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n         Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n         \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n         Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n         accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n         and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n         Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n         early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n         local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n         cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n         war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n         Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n         very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n         the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n         in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n         materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n         (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n         this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n         largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n         Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n         have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n         appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n         addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n         Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n         of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n         John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n         Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n         Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n         Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n         Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n         at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n         Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n         James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n         Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n         Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n         and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n         plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n         party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n         especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n         addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n         Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n         Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n         of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n         Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n         artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n         Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n         for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n         John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n         Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n         Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n         of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n         activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n         Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n         written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n         concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n         elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n         President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n         Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n         Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n         the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n         letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n         Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n         1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n         ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n         Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n         Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n         (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n         the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n         Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n         Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n         Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n         Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n         Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n         account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n         \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n         scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n         years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n         shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n         Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n         \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n         and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n         managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n         folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n         added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n         Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n         agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n         the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n         written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n         several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n         fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n         laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n         concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n         river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n         for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n         materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n         trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n         Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n         concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n         N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n         Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n         Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n         livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n         Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n         1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n         Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n         plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n         and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n         of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n         Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n         (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n         Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n         that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n         Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n         attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n         folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n         autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n         biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n         contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n         Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n         Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n         Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n         and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n         with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n         maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n         contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n         rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n         records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n         marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n         and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n         of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n         Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n         Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n         activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n         his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n         Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n         Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n         William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n         concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n         Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n         as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n         service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n         concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n         an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n         in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n         Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n         C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n         records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n         of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n         reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n         fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n         miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n         the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n         newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n         Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n         Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n         Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n         letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n         career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n         deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n         policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n         Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n         broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n         Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n         a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n         Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n         used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n         certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n         Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n         Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n         and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n         John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n         will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n         to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n         from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n         Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n         Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n         Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n         obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n         and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n         Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n         wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n         Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n         Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n         mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n         primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n         concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n         period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n         1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n         Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n         genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n         Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n         estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n         Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n         up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n         will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n         Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n         (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n         etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n         regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n         (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n         report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n         Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n         of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n         Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n         Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n         Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n         Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n         numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n         correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n         contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n         Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n         complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n         accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n         Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n         lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n         William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n         deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n         Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n         concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n         \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n         \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n         of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n         memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n         notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n         Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n         an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n         Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n         and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n         series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n         the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n         personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n         politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n         law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n         Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n         Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n         Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n         papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n         each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n         Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n         (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n         Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n         Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n         Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n         Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n         Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n         Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n         management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n         Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n         largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n         some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n         letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n         correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n         Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n         Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n         of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n         John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n         Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n         attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n         Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n         Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n         (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n         his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n         University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n         and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n         Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n         1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n         also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n         canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n         properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n         Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n         North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n         (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n         that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n         records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n         include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n         in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n         additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n         1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n         boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n         (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n         the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n         Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n         correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n         contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n         manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n         certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n         College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n         members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n         signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n         diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n         Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n         and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n         by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n         Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n         Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n         certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n         newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n         clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n         Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n         certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n         concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n         materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n         County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n         (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n         of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n         1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n         Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n         personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n         concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n         Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n         life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n         Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n         speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n         written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n         examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n         Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n         courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n         electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n         address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n         call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n         Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n         1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n         addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n         veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n         (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n         1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n         Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n         The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n         (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n         of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n         the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n         roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n         Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n         Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n         Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n         and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n         political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n         Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n         assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n         is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n         and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n         concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n         Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n         Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n         40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n         and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n         to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n         72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n         Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n         Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n         reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n         of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n         chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n         tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n         politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n         Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n         senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n         to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n         articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n         business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n         celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n         James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n         (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n         92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n         Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n         the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n         House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n         Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n         letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n         University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n         concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n         Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n         Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n         included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n         and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n         clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n         socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n         Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n         speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n         September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n         Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n         November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n         1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n         mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n         materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n         Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n         1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n         Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n         Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n         incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n         Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n         as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n         (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n         deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n         property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n         covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n         Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n         Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n         County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n         taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n         cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n         history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n         and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n         on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n         Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n         includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n         Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n         attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n         clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n         Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n         concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n         1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n         (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n         to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n         of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n         lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n         They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n         tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n         correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n         Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n         Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n         account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n         Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n         and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n         A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n         West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n         Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n         appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n         of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n         filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n         agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n         Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n         married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n         dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n         members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n         of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n         Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n         George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n         Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n         while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n         George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n         (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n         VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n         (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n         passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n         books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n         1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n         personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n         follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n         kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n         payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n         loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n         agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n         Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n         1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n         rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n         Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n         Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n         and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n         were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n         Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n         124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n         properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n         1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n         of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n         ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n         Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n         firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n         political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n         E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n         Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n         items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n         Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n         great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n         state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n         Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n         history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n         pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n         15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n         documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n         Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n         scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n         \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n         Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n         developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n         bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n         plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n         Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n         Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n         Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n         etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n         Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n         1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n         projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n         their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n         an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n         pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n         vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n         guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n         Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n         1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n         William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n         diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n         visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n         Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n         membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n         Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n         issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n         Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n         Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n         recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n         condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n         death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n         Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n         trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n         materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n         Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n         letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n         written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n         military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n         officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n         includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n         1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n         estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n         Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n         Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n         1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n         Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n         last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n         the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n         years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n         hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n         retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n         captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n         communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n         Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n         and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n         naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n         George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n         grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n         1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n         Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n         Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n         the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n         Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n         concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n         orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n         concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n         Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n         Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n         address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n         concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n         comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n         R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n         LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n         1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n         Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n         invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n         and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n         (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n         became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n         this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n         reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n         invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n         notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n         (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n         the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n         Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n         [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n         album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n         Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n         Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection includes\n         correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n         Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n         concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n         correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n         materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n         diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n         operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n         events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n         correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n         materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n         of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n         contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n         and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n         correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n         \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n         Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n         financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n         Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n         correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n         and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n         records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n         other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The collection includes\n         correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n         Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n         concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n         correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n         materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n         diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n         operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n         events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n         correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n         materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n         of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n         contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n         and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n         correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n         \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n         Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n         financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n         Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n         correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n         and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n         records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n         other members of the Wickham and Fanning families."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":53,"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_vih00017","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00017","_root_":"vihi_vih00017","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00017","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00017.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977","Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n         century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n         -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n         History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n         1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n         County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n         1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n         1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880.","11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n         boxes).","Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n         subdivided by date or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n         the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n         collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n         wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n         William Fanning Wickham.","The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n         (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n         Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n         father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n         ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n         of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n         seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n         Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n         concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n         County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n         Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n         family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n         correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n         MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n         another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n         the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n         his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n         eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n         this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n         Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n         in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n         Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n         (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n         American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n         Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n         governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n         Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n         personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n         1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n         the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n         while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n         1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n         Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n         travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n         plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n         Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n         his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n         papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n         records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n         of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n         Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n         part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n         slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n         a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n         trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n         Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n         (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n         the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n         auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n         King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n         Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n         argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n         counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n         U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n         constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n         trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n         benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n         1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n         confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n         Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n         used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n         handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n         Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n         Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n         sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n         and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n         Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n         eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n         McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n         died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n         litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n         lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n         1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n         with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n         Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n         Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n         Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n         Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n         William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n         and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n         a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n         accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n         Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n         Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n         in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n         Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n         of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n         concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n         (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n         of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n         established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n         Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n         E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n         (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n         the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n         bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n         Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n         1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n         Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n         includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n         Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n         \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n         County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n         period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n         Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n         Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n         F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n         Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n         on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n         release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n         County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n         Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n         Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n         William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n         etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n         of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n         attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n         Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n         and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n         volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n         personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n         the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n         local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n         slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n         plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n         Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n         5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n         Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n         runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n         Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n         Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n         on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n         reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n         1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n         1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n         Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n         Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n         1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n         correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n         (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n         Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n         postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n         stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n         William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n         the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n         George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n         condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n         Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n         acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n         other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n         by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n         1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n         stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n         Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n         and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n         plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n         totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n         report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n         evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n         1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n         Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n         and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n         Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n         plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n         of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n         H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n         of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n         1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n         of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n         to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n         values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n         1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n         of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n         and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n         for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n         Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n         Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n         farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n         between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n         with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n         plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n         concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n         \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n         Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n         Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n         trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n         plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n         Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n         Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n         a number of years but returned to England before the American\n         Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n         sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n         Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n         vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n         Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n         continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n         war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n         by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n         their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n         County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n         by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n         administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n         when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n         property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n         the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n         trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n         members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n         blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n         issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n         the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n         purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n         had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n         William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n         attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n         David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n         Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n         affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n         and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n         former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n         include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n         1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n         Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n         and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n         Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n         trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n         Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n         Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n         decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n         commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n         Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n         heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n         Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n         under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n         of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n         the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n         miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n         William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n         or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n         after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n         book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n         of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n         concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n         lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n         Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n         1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n         materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n         deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n         Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n         rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n         of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n         Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n         (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n         certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n         certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n         and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n         by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n         and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n         commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n         primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n         English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n         reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n         consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n         constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n         Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n         inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n         Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n         \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n         Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n         accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n         and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n         Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n         early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n         local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n         cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n         war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n         Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n         very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n         the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n         in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n         materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n         (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n         this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n         largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n         Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n         have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n         appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n         addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n         Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n         of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n         John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n         Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n         Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n         Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n         Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n         at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n         Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n         James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n         Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n         Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n         and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n         plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n         party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n         especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n         addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n         Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n         Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n         of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n         Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n         artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n         Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n         for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n         John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n         Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n         Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n         of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n         activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n         Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n         written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n         concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n         elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n         President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n         Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n         Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n         the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n         letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n         Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n         1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n         ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n         Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n         Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n         (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n         the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n         Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n         Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n         Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n         Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n         Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n         account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n         \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n         scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n         years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n         shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n         Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n         \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n         and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n         managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n         folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n         added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n         Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n         agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n         the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n         written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n         several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n         fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n         laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n         concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n         river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n         for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n         materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n         trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n         Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n         concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n         N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n         Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n         Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n         livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n         Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n         1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n         Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n         plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n         and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n         of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n         Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n         (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n         Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n         that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n         Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n         attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n         folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n         autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n         biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n         contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n         Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n         Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n         Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n         and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n         with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n         maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n         contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n         rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n         records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n         marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n         and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n         of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n         Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n         Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n         activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n         his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n         Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n         Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n         William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n         concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n         Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n         as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n         service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n         concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n         an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n         in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n         Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n         C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n         records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n         of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n         reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n         fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n         miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n         the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n         newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n         Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n         Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n         Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n         letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n         career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n         deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n         policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n         Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n         broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n         Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n         a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n         Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n         used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n         certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n         Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n         Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n         and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n         John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n         will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n         to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n         from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n         Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n         Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n         Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n         obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n         and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n         Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n         wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n         Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n         Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n         mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n         primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n         concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n         period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n         1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n         Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n         genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n         Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n         estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n         Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n         up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n         will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n         Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n         (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n         etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n         regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n         (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n         report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n         Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n         of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n         Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n         Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n         Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n         Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n         numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n         correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n         contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n         Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n         complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n         accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n         Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n         lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n         William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n         deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n         Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n         concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n         \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n         \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n         of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n         memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n         notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n         Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n         an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n         Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n         and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n         series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n         the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n         personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n         politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n         law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n         Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n         Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n         Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n         papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n         each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n         Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n         (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n         Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n         Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n         Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n         Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n         Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n         Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n         management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n         Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n         largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n         some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n         letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n         correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n         Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n         Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n         of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n         John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n         Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n         attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n         Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n         Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n         (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n         his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n         University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n         and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n         Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n         1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n         also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n         canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n         properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n         Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n         North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n         (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n         that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n         records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n         include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n         in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n         additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n         1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n         boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n         (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n         the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n         Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n         correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n         contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n         manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n         certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n         College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n         members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n         signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n         diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n         Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n         and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n         by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n         Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n         Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n         certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n         newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n         clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n         Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n         certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n         concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n         materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n         County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n         (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n         of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n         1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n         Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n         personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n         concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n         Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n         life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n         Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n         speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n         written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n         examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n         Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n         courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n         electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n         address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n         call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n         Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n         1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n         addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n         veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n         (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n         1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n         Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n         The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n         (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n         of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n         the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n         roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n         Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n         Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n         Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n         and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n         political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n         Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n         assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n         is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n         and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n         concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n         Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n         Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n         40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n         and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n         to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n         72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n         Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n         Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n         reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n         of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n         chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n         tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n         politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n         Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n         senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n         to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n         articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n         business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n         celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n         James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n         (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n         92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n         Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n         the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n         House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n         Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n         letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n         University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n         concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n         Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n         Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n         included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n         and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n         clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n         socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n         Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n         speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n         September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n         Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n         November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n         1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n         mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n         materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n         Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n         1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n         Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n         Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n         incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n         Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n         as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n         (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n         deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n         property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n         covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n         Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n         Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n         County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n         taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n         cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n         history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n         and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n         on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n         Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n         includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n         Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n         attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n         clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n         Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n         concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n         1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n         (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n         to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n         of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n         lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n         They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n         tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n         correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n         Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n         Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n         account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n         Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n         and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n         A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n         West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n         Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n         appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n         of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n         filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n         agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n         Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n         married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n         dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n         members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n         of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n         Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n         George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n         Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n         while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n         George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n         (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n         VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n         (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n         passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n         books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n         1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n         personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n         follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n         kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n         payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n         loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n         agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n         Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n         1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n         rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n         Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n         Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n         and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n         were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n         Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n         124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n         properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n         1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n         of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n         ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n         Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n         firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n         political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n         E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n         Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n         items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n         Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n         great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n         state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n         Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n         history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n         pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n         15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n         documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n         Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n         scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n         \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n         Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n         developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n         bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n         plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n         Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n         Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n         Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n         etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n         Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n         1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n         projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n         their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n         an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n         pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n         vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n         guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n         Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n         1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n         William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n         diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n         visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n         Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n         membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n         Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n         issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n         Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n         Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n         recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n         condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n         death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n         Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n         trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n         materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n         Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n         letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n         written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n         military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n         officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n         includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n         1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n         estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n         Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n         Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n         1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n         Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n         last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n         the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n         years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n         hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n         retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n         captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n         communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n         Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n         and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n         naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n         George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n         grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n         1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n         Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n         Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n         the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n         Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n         concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n         orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n         concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n         Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n         Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n         address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n         concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n         comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n         R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n         LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n         1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n         Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n         invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n         and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n         (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n         became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n         this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n         reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n         invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n         notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n         (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n         the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n         Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n         [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n         album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n         Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n         Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)","The collection includes\n         correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n         Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n         concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n         correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n         materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n         diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n         operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n         events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n         correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n         materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n         of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n         contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n         and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n         correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n         \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n         Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n         financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n         Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n         correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n         and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n         records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n         other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1754-1977"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Credilla B. W. Bordley, Ashland, Va., and\n            Lawrence V. M. Wickham, Hanover, Va., in 1987. Accessioned\n            22 July 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n         century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n         -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n         History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n         1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n         County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n         1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n         1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n         century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n         -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n         History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. 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This\n         collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n         wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n         William Fanning Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n         the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n         post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n         collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n         wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n         William Fanning Wickham."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n         (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n         Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n         father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n         ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n         of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n         seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n         Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n         concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n         County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n         Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n         family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n         correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n         MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n         another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n         the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n         his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n         eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n         this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n         Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n         in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n         Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n         (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n         American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n         Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n         governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n         Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n         personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n         1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n         the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n         while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n         1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n         Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n         travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n         plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n         Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n         his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n         papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n         records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n         of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n         Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n         part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n         slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n         a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n         trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n         Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n         (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n         the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n         auction of these lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n         King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n         Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n         argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n         counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n         U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n         constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n         trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n         benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n         1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n         confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n         Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n         used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n         handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n         Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n         Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n         sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n         and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n         Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n         eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n         McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n         died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n         litigation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n         lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n         1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n         with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n         Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n         Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n         Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n         Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n         William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n         and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n         a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n         accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n         Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n         Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n         in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n         Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n         of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n         concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n         (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n         of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n         established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n         Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n         E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n         (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n         the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n         bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n         Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n         1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n         Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n         includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n         Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n         \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n         County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n         period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n         Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n         Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n         F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n         Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n         on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n         release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n         County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n         Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n         Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n         William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n         etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n         of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4, containing the personal records of William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n         attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n         Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n         and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n         volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n         personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n         the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n         local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n         slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n         plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n         Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n         5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n         Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n         runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n         Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n         Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n         on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n         reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n         1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n         1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n         Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n         Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n         1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n         correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n         (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n         Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n         postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n         stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n         William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n         the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n         George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n         condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n         Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n         acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n         other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n         by Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n         1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n         stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n         Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n         and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n         plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n         totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n         report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n         evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n         1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n         Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n         and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n         Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n         plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n         of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n         H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n         of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n         1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n         of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n         to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n         values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n         1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n         of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n         and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n         for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n         Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n         Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n         farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n         between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n         with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n         plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n         concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n         \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n         Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n         Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n         trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n         plats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the most interesting matters handled by William\n         Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n         Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n         a number of years but returned to England before the American\n         Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n         sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n         Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n         vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n         Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n         continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n         war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n         by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n         their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n         County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n         by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n         administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n         when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n         property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n         the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n         trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n         members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n         blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n         issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n         the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n         purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n         had no right to alienate themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n         William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n         attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n         David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n         Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n         affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n         and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n         former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n         include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n         1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n         Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n         and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n         Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n         trustees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n         Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n         Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n         decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n         commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n         Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n         heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n         Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n         under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n         of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n         the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n         miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n         William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n         or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n         after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n         book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n         of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n         concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n         lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n         Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n         1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n         materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n         deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n         Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n         rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n         of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n         Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n         (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n         certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n         certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n         and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n         by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n         and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n         commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n         primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n         English counties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n         reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n         consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n         constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n         Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n         inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n         Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n         \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n         Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n         accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n         and bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n         Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n         early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n         local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n         cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n         war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n         Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n         very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n         the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n         in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n         materials are represented in Series 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn important group of three postwar letterbooks\n         (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n         this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n         largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n         Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n         have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n         appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n         addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n         Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n         of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n         John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n         Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n         Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n         Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n         Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n         at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n         Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n         James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n         Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n         Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n         and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n         plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n         party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n         especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n         addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n         Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n         Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n         of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n         Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n         artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n         Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n         for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n         John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n         Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n         Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n         of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n         activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n         Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n         written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n         concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n         elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n         President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n         Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n         Samuel M. Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n         the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n         letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n         Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n         1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n         ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n         Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n         Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n         (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n         the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n         Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n         Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n         Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n         Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n         Fanning, and Coffin families).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n         account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n         \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n         scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n         years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n         shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n         Hill,\" and furnishing the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n         \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n         and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n         managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n         folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n         added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n         Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n         agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n         the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n         written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n         several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n         fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n         laborers; and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n         concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n         river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n         for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n         materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n         trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n         Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n         concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n         N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n         Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n         Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n         livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n         Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n         1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n         Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n         plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n         and inventories of stock and equipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n         of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n         Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n         (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n         Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n         that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n         Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n         attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n         folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n         autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n         biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n         contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n         Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n         Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n         Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n         and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n         with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n         maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n         contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n         rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n         records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n         marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n         and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n         of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n         Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n         Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n         activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n         his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n         Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n         Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n         William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n         concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n         Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n         as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n         service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n         concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n         an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n         in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n         Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n         C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n         records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n         of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n         reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n         fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n         miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n         the Richmond City Railway Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n         newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n         Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n         Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n         Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n         letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n         career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n         deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n         policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n         Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n         broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n         Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n         a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n         Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n         used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n         certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n         Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n         Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n         and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n         John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n         will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n         to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n         from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n         Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n         Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n         Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n         obituary notices and newspaper editorials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n         and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n         Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n         wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n         Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n         Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n         mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n         primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n         concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n         period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n         1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n         Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n         genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n         Taylor families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n         estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n         Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n         up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n         will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n         Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n         (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n         etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n         regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n         (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n         report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n         Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n         of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n         Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n         Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n         Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n         Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n         numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n         correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n         contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n         Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n         complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n         accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n         Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n         lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n         William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n         deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n         Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n         concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n         \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n         \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n         of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n         memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n         notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n         Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n         an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n         Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n         and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n         series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n         the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n         personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n         politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n         law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n         Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n         Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n         Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n         papers make up Series 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlong with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n         each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n         Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n         (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n         Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n         Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n         Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n         Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n         Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n         Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n         management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n         Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n         largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n         some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n         letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n         correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n         Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n         Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n         of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n         John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n         Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n         attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n         Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n         Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n         (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n         his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n         University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n         and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n         Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n         1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n         also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n         canceled checks before 1931).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n         properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n         Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n         North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n         (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n         that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n         records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n         include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n         in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n         additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n         1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n         boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n         (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n         the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n         Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n         correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n         contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n         manager.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n         certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n         College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n         members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n         signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n         diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n         Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n         and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n         by Washington and Lee University, 1935.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n         Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n         Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n         certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n         newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n         clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n         Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n         certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n         concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n         materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n         County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n         (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n         of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n         1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n         Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n         personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n         concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n         Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n         life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n         Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n         speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n         written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n         examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n         Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n         courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n         electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n         address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n         call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n         Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n         1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n         addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n         veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n         (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n         1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n         Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n         The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n         (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n         of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n         the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n         roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n         Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n         Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n         Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n         and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n         political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n         Confederate veterans' associations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n         assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n         is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n         and/or outstanding contents:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n         concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n         Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n         Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n         40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n         and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n         to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n         72).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n         Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n         Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n         reunions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n         of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n         chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n         tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n         politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n         Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n         senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n         to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n         articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n         business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n         celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n         James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n         (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n         92).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n         Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n         the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n         House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n         Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n         letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n         University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n         concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n         Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n         Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n         included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n         and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n         clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n         socialite.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n         Democratic politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n         speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n         September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n         Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n         November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n         1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n         mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n         materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n         Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n         1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n         Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n         Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n         incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n         Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n         as an officer).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n         (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n         deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n         property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n         covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n         Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n         Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n         County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n         taxes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n         cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n         history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n         and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n         on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n         Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n         includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n         Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n         attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n         clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n         Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n         concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n         1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n         (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n         to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n         of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n         lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n         They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n         tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n         correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n         Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n         Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n         account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n         Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n         and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n         A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n         West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n         Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n         appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n         of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n         filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n         agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n         Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n         married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n         dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n         members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n         of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n         Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n         George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n         Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n         while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n         George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n         (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n         VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n         (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n         passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n         books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n         1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n         personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n         follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n         kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n         payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n         loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n         agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n         Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n         1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n         rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n         Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n         Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n         and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n         were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n         Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n         124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n         properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n         1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n         of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n         ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n         Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n         firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n         political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n         E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n         Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n         items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n         Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n         great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n         state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n         Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n         history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n         pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n         15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n         documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n         Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n         scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n         \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n         Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n         developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n         bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n         plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n         Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n         Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n         Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n         etal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n         Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n         1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n         projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n         their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n         an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n         pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n         vestry; and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n         guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n         Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n         1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n         William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n         diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n         visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n         Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n         membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n         Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n         issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n         Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n         Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n         recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n         condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n         death in 1952 complete Box 48.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n         Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n         trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n         materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n         Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n         letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n         written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n         military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n         officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n         includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n         1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n         estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n         Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n         Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n         1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n         Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n         last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n         the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n         years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n         hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n         retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n         captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n         communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n         Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n         and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n         naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n         George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n         grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n         1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n         Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n         Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n         the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n         Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n         concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n         orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n         concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n         Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n         Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n         address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n         concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n         comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n         R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n         LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n         1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n         Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n         invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n         and collected newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n         (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n         became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n         this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n         reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n         invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n         notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n         (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n         the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n         Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n         [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n         album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n         Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n         Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n         (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n         Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n         father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n         ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n         of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n         seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n         Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n         concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n         County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n         Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n         family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n         correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n         MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n         another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n         the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n         his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n         eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n         this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n         Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n         in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n         Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n         (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n         American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n         Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n         governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n         Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n         personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n         1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n         the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n         while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n         1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n         Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n         travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n         plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n         Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n         his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n         papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n         records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n         of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n         Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n         part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n         slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n         a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n         trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n         Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n         (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n         the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n         auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n         King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n         Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n         argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n         counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n         U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n         constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n         trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n         benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n         1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n         confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n         Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n         used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n         handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n         Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n         Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n         sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n         and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n         Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n         eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n         McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n         died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n         litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n         lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n         1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n         with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n         Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n         Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n         Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n         Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n         William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n         and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n         a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n         accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n         Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n         Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n         in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n         Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n         of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n         concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n         (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n         of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n         established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n         Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n         William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n         E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n         (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n         the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n         bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n         Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n         1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n         Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n         includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n         Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n         \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n         County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n         period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n         Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n         Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n         F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n         Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n         on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n         release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n         County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n         Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n         Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n         William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n         etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n         of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n         Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n         attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n         Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n         and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n         volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n         personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n         the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n         local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n         slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n         plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n         Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n         5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n         Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n         runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n         Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n         Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n         on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n         reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n         1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n         1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n         Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n         Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n         1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n         correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n         (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n         Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n         postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n         stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n         William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n         the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n         George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n         condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n         Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n         acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n         other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n         by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n         1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n         stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n         Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n         and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n         plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n         totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n         report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n         evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n         1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n         Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n         and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n         Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n         plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n         of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n         H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n         of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n         \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n         1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n         of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n         to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n         values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n         1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n         of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n         and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n         for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n         Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n         Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n         farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n         between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n         with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n         plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n         concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n         \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n         Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n         Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n         trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n         plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n         Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n         Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n         a number of years but returned to England before the American\n         Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n         sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n         Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n         vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n         Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n         continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n         war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n         by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n         their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n         County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n         by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n         administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n         when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n         property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n         the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n         trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n         members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n         blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n         issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n         the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n         purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n         had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n         William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n         attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n         David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n         Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n         affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n         and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n         former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n         include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n         1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n         Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n         and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n         Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n         trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n         Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n         Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n         decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n         commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n         Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n         heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n         Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n         under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n         of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n         the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n         miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n         William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n         or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n         after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n         book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n         of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n         concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n         lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n         Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n         1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n         materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n         deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n         Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n         rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n         of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n         Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n         (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n         certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n         certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n         and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n         by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n         and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n         commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n         primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n         English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n         reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n         consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n         constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n         Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n         inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n         Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n         \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n         Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n         accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n         and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n         Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n         early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n         local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n         cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n         war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n         Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n         very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n         the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n         in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n         materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n         (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n         this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n         largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n         Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n         have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n         appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n         addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n         Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n         of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n         John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n         Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n         Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n         Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n         Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n         at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n         Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n         James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n         Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n         Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n         and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n         plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n         party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n         especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n         addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n         Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n         Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n         of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n         Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n         artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n         Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n         for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n         John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n         Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n         Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n         of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n         activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n         Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n         written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n         concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n         elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n         President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n         Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n         Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n         the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n         letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n         Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n         1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n         ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n         Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n         Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n         Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n         (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n         the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n         Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n         Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n         Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n         Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n         Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n         account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n         \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n         scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n         years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n         shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n         Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n         \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n         and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n         managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n         folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n         added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n         Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n         agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n         the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n         written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n         several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n         fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n         laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n         concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n         river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n         for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n         materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n         trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n         Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n         concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n         N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n         Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n         Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n         livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n         Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n         1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n         Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n         plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n         and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n         of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n         Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n         (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n         Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n         that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n         Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n         attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n         folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n         autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n         biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n         contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n         Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n         Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n         Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n         and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n         (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n         with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n         maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n         contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n         rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n         records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n         marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n         and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n         of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n         Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n         Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n         activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n         his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n         Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n         Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n         William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n         concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n         Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n         as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n         service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n         concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n         an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n         in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n         Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n         C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n         records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n         of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n         reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n         fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n         miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n         the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n         newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n         Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n         Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n         Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n         letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n         career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n         deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n         policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n         \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n         Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n         broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n         Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n         a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n         Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n         used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n         certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n         Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n         Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n         and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n         John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n         will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n         to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n         from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n         Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n         Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n         Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n         obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n         and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n         Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n         wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n         Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n         Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n         mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n         Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n         primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n         concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n         period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n         1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n         Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n         genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n         Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n         estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n         Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n         up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n         will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n         Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n         (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n         etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n         regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n         (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n         Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n         report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n         Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n         of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n         Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n         Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n         Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n         Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n         (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n         numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n         correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n         contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n         Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n         complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n         accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n         Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n         lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n         William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n         deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n         (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n         Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n         concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n         \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n         \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n         of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n         memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n         notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n         Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n         an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n         Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n         and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n         series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n         the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n         personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n         politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n         law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n         Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n         Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n         Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n         papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n         each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n         Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n         (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n         Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n         Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n         Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n         Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n         Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n         Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n         management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n         Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n         largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n         some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n         letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n         correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n         Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n         Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n         of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n         John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n         Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n         attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n         Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n         Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n         (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n         his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n         University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n         and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n         Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n         1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n         also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n         canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n         properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n         Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n         North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n         (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n         that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n         records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n         include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n         in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n         additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n         1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n         boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n         (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n         the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n         Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n         correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n         contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n         manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n         certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n         College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n         members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n         signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n         diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n         Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n         and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n         by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n         Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n         Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n         certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n         newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n         clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n         Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n         certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n         concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n         materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n         County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n         (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n         of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n         1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n         Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n         personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n         concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n         Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n         life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n         Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n         speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n         written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n         examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n         Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n         courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n         electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n         address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n         call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n         Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n         1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n         addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n         veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n         (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n         1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n         Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n         The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n         (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n         of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n         the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n         roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n         Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n         Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n         Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n         and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n         political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n         recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n         Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n         assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n         is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n         and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n         concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n         Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n         Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n         40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n         and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n         to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n         72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n         Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n         Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n         reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n         of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n         chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n         tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n         politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n         Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n         senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n         to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n         articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n         business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n         celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n         James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n         (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n         92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n         Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n         the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n         House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n         Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n         letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n         University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n         concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n         Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n         Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n         included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n         and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n         clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n         socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n         Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n         speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n         September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n         Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n         November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n         1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n         mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n         materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n         Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n         1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n         Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n         Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n         incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n         Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n         as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n         (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n         deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n         property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n         covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n         Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n         Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n         County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n         taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n         cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n         history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n         and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n         on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n         Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n         includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n         Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n         attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n         clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n         Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n         concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n         1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n         (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n         to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n         of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n         lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n         They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n         tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n         correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n         Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n         Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n         account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n         Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n         and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n         A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n         West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n         Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n         appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n         of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n         filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n         agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n         Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n         married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n         dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n         members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n         of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n         Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n         George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n         Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n         while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n         George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n         (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n         VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n         (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n         passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n         books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n         1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n         personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n         follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n         kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n         payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n         loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n         agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n         Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n         1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n         rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n         Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n         Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n         and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n         were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n         Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n         124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n         properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n         1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n         of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n         ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n         Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n         firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n         political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n         E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n         Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n         items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n         Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n         great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n         state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n         Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n         history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n         pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n         15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n         documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n         Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n         scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n         \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n         Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n         developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n         bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n         plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n         Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n         Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n         Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n         etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n         Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n         1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n         projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n         their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n         an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n         pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n         vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n         guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n         Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n         1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n         William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n         diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n         visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n         Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n         membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n         Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n         issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n         Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n         Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n         recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n         condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n         death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n         Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n         trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n         Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n         materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n         Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n         letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n         written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n         military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n         officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n         includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n         1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n         estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n         Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n         Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n         1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n         Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n         last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n         the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n         years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n         hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n         retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n         captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n         communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n         Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n         and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n         naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n         George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n         grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n         1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n         Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n         Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n         the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n         Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n         concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n         orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n         concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n         Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n         Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n         address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n         concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n         comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n         R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n         LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n         1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n         Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n         invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n         and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n         (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n         became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n         this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n         reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n         invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n         notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n         (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n         the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n         Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n         [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n         album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n         Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n         Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection includes\n         correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n         Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n         concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n         correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n         materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n         diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n         operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n         events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n         correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n         materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n         of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n         contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n         and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n         correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n         \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n         Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n         financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n         Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n         correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n         and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n         records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n         other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The collection includes\n         correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n         Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n         concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n         correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n         materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n         Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n         (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n         diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n         operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n         events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n         correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n         materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n         of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n         contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n         (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n         and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n         correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n         farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n         \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n         Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n         financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n         Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n         correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n         and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n         (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n         records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n         Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n         other members of the Wickham and Fanning families."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":53,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00017"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00016","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n          \n         1766-1945","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00016#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Abstract: The collection includes correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal records (including materials concerning the treason trial of Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the settlement of Wickham's estate. 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. 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 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