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The collection also contains photographs, school notebooks, and an arm-patch from a United States Army uniform."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Blizzard, Arlie Raymond (1909-1966)","Blizzard, Arthur Roy (1918-1992)","Blizzard, William Russell (1912-2000)"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Blizzard, Arlie Raymond (1909-1966)","Blizzard, Arthur Roy (1918-1992)","Blizzard, William Russell (1912-2000)"],"persname_ssim":["Blizzard, Arlie Raymond (1909-1966)","Blizzard, Arthur Roy (1918-1992)","Blizzard, William Russell (1912-2000)"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":31,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T06:30:22.113Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8476"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"John Millington Papers","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8395#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Millington, John, 1779-1868","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8395#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eMillington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8395#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8395.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Millington, John Papers","title_ssm":["John Millington Papers"],"title_tesim":["John Millington Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1801-1951"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1801-1951"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395"],"text":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395","John Millington Papers","Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)","College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Engineering--Study and teaching--United States--19th century","Mexico--History--19th century","Mining engineering--History--19th century","Spanish-American War, 1898","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty","University of Mississippi--History--19th century","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)","2,477.00 items","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information.","John Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868.","The material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015.","The collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated.","John Millington Collection (UA 6.015)","Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)","The personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries.","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.","All of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Millington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026 Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.","Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.","Typewritten copy.","Scope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.","Reprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.","Scope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.","Scope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.","Sworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp; to dine with him.\"","Answer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.","(Purchased March, 1968)","Concerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)","Scope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.","Scope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.","Endorsement: \"about not calling\".","Scope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).","Scope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"","Millington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.","Printed Material. Card.","Scope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"","Scope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.","For an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.","Issued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"","James Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.","Scope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.","Sarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.","Memorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.","Scope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.","Endorsement by John Millington.","Introducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Introducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Scope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.","Introducing John Millington.","Introducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.","Scope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.","Includes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.","Scope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.","Scope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.","Endorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.","Scope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.","Printed Material.","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"","Appointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.","J. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.","Printed invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.","Scope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.","Scope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp; his coming to town....\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"","Endorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp; Mary College Library.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"","Endorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"","Scope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.","Scope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.","Scope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"","Scope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.","An account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"","Scope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.","Scope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.","Scope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.","He writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"","Regarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.","Endorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"","Enclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.","Enclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.","Regarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.","Enclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.","Regarding his account with the company.","Regarding his business with that firm.","Regarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.","Regarding settlement of an estate.","Endorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"","Regarding transfer of money received for his account.","Endorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"","Regarding his accounts in England.","A promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.","Regarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.","Regarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.","Regarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.","Order for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.","News of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp; to send the title deeds.\"","PAM.","From a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.","Family news; John Millington's move to a new residence.","Regarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.","Sent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.","Deed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.","Regarding the death of her husband. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.","Letter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.","A bank check.","Family news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"","Regarding her life in England.","Regarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.","Scope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.","Endorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"","Regarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.","Regarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.","Scope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.","Receipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.","Scope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.","Scope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.","Scope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.","Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping.","PADS.","Scope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.","Scope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.","Autogaphed document.","Scope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.","Scope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.","Scope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.","Scope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.","Scope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.","Scope and Contents Business matters.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"","Regarding property in Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.","Regarding the death of their father (John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Regarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.","Scope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.","Scope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.","Scope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.","Scope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.","Scope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.","Newspaper clipping.","Contains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.","AV.","AV.","AV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December","AV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December","AV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December","AV.","AV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December","AV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865","AV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December","AV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October","AV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December","Death of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.","59 pages. TDr.","Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.","Cover for some of next 14 papers.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Regarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.","Scope and Contents On the same subject.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.","Scope and Contents Regarding a furlough.","Scope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.","Scope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.","Scope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.","Scope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"","Newspaper clipping.","Scope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.","Scope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.","Scope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.","Regarding the value of a book on medals.","Scope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.","Enclosure: list of particular gifts.","Regarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.","Report of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.","Appreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.","Unknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.","Regarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.","Regarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.","Appreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.","Newspaper clipping.","Application blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.","Printed material.","Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Notice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping","Regarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.","Regarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.","Names and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.","Scope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.","Stating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).","Scope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.","Enclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.","Annie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.","See John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.","Newspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.","Included is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping","Scope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material. Card.","Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Newspaper Clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Includes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.","3 photographs.","\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.","Includes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","One has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Identified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"","Includes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.","Photograph.","Includes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.","Three cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.","By William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.","\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.","Endorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Cooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Scope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Greetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Endorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.","Photograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in","67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","Records and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","John Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.","13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.","7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.","[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]","Approximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011","Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.","Fragile.","Scope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"","Scope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"","Approximately 100 stereocard photographs","[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]","Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.","Glass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.","Undeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.","This box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Note by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.","Scales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.","Spectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.","Ivory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.","Note with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.","Scope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.","Round medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.","Mexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.","Mexican woven purse.","Miscellaneous hand-worked cards.","Petit point patterns.","\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.","This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"","Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.","Note stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.","Thermometer in case belonging to John Millington.","Drafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.","This box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.","Scope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"","Mexican figurine of a monk.","Scope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"","Miner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830.\"","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.","Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Thomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn","Blankenship family","Millington family","Millington, John, 1779-1868","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395"],"normalized_title_ssm":["John Millington Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Millington Papers"],"collection_ssim":["John Millington Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"geogname_ssim":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"creator_ssm":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creator_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creators_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"places_ssim":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gifts were made by Dr. Millington (grandson of J. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information:"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History:"],"custodhist_tesim":["The material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["John Millington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["The collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington Collection (UA 6.015)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRoll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAll of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["John Millington Collection (UA 6.015)","Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)","The personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries.","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.","All of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMillington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp;amp; to dine with him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Purchased March, 1968)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"about not calling\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp;amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMillington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement by John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp;amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp;amp; his coming to town....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp;amp; Mary College Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp;amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp;amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his account with the company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his business with that firm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding settlement of an estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding transfer of money received for his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his accounts in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp;amp; to send the title deeds.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePAM.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; John Millington's move to a new residence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the death of her husband. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA bank check.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding her life in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutogaphed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding property in Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the death of their father (John Millington).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 pages. TDr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCover for some of next 14 papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the same subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the value of a book on medals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: list of particular gifts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplication blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDonated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNames and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper Clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp;amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragile.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 100 stereocard photographs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIvory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRound medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican woven purse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous hand-worked cards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetit point patterns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThermometer in case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican figurine of a monk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. 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Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.","Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.","Typewritten copy.","Scope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.","Reprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.","Scope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.","Scope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.","Sworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp; to dine with him.\"","Answer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.","(Purchased March, 1968)","Concerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)","Scope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.","Scope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.","Endorsement: \"about not calling\".","Scope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).","Scope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"","Millington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.","Printed Material. Card.","Scope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"","Scope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.","For an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.","Issued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"","James Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.","Scope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.","Sarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.","Memorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.","Scope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.","Endorsement by John Millington.","Introducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Introducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Scope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.","Introducing John Millington.","Introducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.","Scope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.","Includes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.","Scope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.","Scope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.","Endorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.","Scope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.","Printed Material.","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"","Appointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.","J. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.","Printed invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.","Scope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.","Scope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp; his coming to town....\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"","Endorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp; Mary College Library.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"","Endorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"","Scope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.","Scope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.","Scope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"","Scope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.","An account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"","Scope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.","Scope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.","Scope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.","He writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"","Regarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.","Endorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"","Enclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.","Enclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.","Regarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.","Enclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.","Regarding his account with the company.","Regarding his business with that firm.","Regarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.","Regarding settlement of an estate.","Endorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"","Regarding transfer of money received for his account.","Endorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"","Regarding his accounts in England.","A promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.","Regarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.","Regarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.","Regarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.","Order for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.","News of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp; to send the title deeds.\"","PAM.","From a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.","Family news; John Millington's move to a new residence.","Regarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.","Sent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.","Deed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.","Regarding the death of her husband. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.","Letter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.","A bank check.","Family news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"","Regarding her life in England.","Regarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.","Scope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.","Endorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"","Regarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.","Regarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.","Scope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.","Receipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.","Scope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.","Scope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.","Scope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.","Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping.","PADS.","Scope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.","Scope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.","Autogaphed document.","Scope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.","Scope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.","Scope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.","Scope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.","Scope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.","Scope and Contents Business matters.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"","Regarding property in Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.","Regarding the death of their father (John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Regarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.","Scope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.","Scope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.","Scope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.","Scope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.","Scope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.","Newspaper clipping.","Contains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.","AV.","AV.","AV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December","AV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December","AV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December","AV.","AV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December","AV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865","AV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December","AV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October","AV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December","Death of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.","59 pages. TDr.","Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.","Cover for some of next 14 papers.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Regarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.","Scope and Contents On the same subject.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.","Scope and Contents Regarding a furlough.","Scope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.","Scope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.","Scope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.","Scope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"","Newspaper clipping.","Scope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.","Scope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.","Scope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.","Regarding the value of a book on medals.","Scope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.","Enclosure: list of particular gifts.","Regarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.","Report of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.","Appreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.","Unknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.","Regarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.","Regarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.","Appreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.","Newspaper clipping.","Application blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.","Printed material.","Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Notice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping","Regarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.","Regarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.","Names and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.","Scope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.","Stating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).","Scope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.","Enclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.","Annie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.","See John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.","Newspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.","Included is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping","Scope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material. Card.","Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Newspaper Clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Includes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.","3 photographs.","\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.","Includes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","One has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Identified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"","Includes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.","Photograph.","Includes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.","Three cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.","By William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.","\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.","Endorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Cooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Scope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Greetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Endorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.","Photograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in","67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","Records and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","John Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.","13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.","7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.","[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]","Approximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011","Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.","Fragile.","Scope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"","Scope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"","Approximately 100 stereocard photographs","[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]","Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.","Glass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.","Undeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.","This box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Note by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.","Scales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.","Spectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.","Ivory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.","Note with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.","Scope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.","Round medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.","Mexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.","Mexican woven purse.","Miscellaneous hand-worked cards.","Petit point patterns.","\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.","This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"","Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.","Note stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.","Thermometer in case belonging to John Millington.","Drafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.","This box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.","Scope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"","Mexican figurine of a monk.","Scope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"","Miner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830.\""],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRoll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArtifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.","Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Thomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn","Blankenship family","Millington family"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn","Blankenship family","Millington family","Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn"],"famname_ssim":["Blankenship family","Millington family"],"persname_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":471,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T06:30:22.113Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8395.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Millington, John Papers","title_ssm":["John Millington Papers"],"title_tesim":["John Millington Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1801-1951"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1801-1951"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395"],"text":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395","John Millington Papers","Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)","College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Engineering--Study and teaching--United States--19th century","Mexico--History--19th century","Mining engineering--History--19th century","Spanish-American War, 1898","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty","University of Mississippi--History--19th century","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)","2,477.00 items","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information.","John Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868.","The material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015.","The collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated.","John Millington Collection (UA 6.015)","Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)","The personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries.","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.","All of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Millington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026 Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.","Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.","Typewritten copy.","Scope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.","Reprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.","Scope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.","Scope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.","Sworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp; to dine with him.\"","Answer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.","(Purchased March, 1968)","Concerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)","Scope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.","Scope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.","Endorsement: \"about not calling\".","Scope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).","Scope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"","Millington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.","Printed Material. Card.","Scope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"","Scope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.","For an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.","Issued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"","James Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.","Scope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.","Sarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.","Memorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.","Scope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.","Endorsement by John Millington.","Introducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Introducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Scope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.","Introducing John Millington.","Introducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.","Scope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.","Includes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.","Scope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.","Scope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.","Endorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.","Scope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.","Printed Material.","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"","Appointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.","J. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.","Printed invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.","Scope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.","Scope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp; his coming to town....\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"","Endorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp; Mary College Library.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"","Endorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"","Scope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.","Scope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.","Scope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"","Scope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.","An account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"","Scope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.","Scope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.","Scope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.","He writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"","Regarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.","Endorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"","Enclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.","Enclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.","Regarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.","Enclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.","Regarding his account with the company.","Regarding his business with that firm.","Regarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.","Regarding settlement of an estate.","Endorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"","Regarding transfer of money received for his account.","Endorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"","Regarding his accounts in England.","A promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.","Regarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.","Regarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.","Regarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.","Order for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.","News of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp; to send the title deeds.\"","PAM.","From a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.","Family news; John Millington's move to a new residence.","Regarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.","Sent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.","Deed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.","Regarding the death of her husband. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.","Letter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.","A bank check.","Family news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"","Regarding her life in England.","Regarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.","Scope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.","Endorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"","Regarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.","Regarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.","Scope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.","Receipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.","Scope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.","Scope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.","Scope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.","Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping.","PADS.","Scope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.","Scope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.","Autogaphed document.","Scope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.","Scope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.","Scope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.","Scope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.","Scope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.","Scope and Contents Business matters.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"","Regarding property in Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.","Regarding the death of their father (John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Regarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.","Scope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.","Scope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.","Scope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.","Scope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.","Scope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.","Newspaper clipping.","Contains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.","AV.","AV.","AV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December","AV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December","AV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December","AV.","AV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December","AV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865","AV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December","AV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October","AV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December","Death of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.","59 pages. TDr.","Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.","Cover for some of next 14 papers.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Regarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.","Scope and Contents On the same subject.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.","Scope and Contents Regarding a furlough.","Scope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.","Scope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.","Scope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.","Scope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"","Newspaper clipping.","Scope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.","Scope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.","Scope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.","Regarding the value of a book on medals.","Scope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.","Enclosure: list of particular gifts.","Regarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.","Report of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.","Appreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.","Unknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.","Regarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.","Regarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.","Appreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.","Newspaper clipping.","Application blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.","Printed material.","Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Notice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping","Regarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.","Regarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.","Names and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.","Scope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.","Stating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).","Scope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.","Enclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.","Annie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.","See John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.","Newspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.","Included is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping","Scope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material. Card.","Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Newspaper Clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Includes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.","3 photographs.","\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.","Includes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","One has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Identified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"","Includes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.","Photograph.","Includes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.","Three cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.","By William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.","\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.","Endorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Cooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Scope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Greetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Endorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.","Photograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in","67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","Records and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","John Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.","13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.","7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.","[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]","Approximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011","Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.","Fragile.","Scope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"","Scope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"","Approximately 100 stereocard photographs","[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]","Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.","Glass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.","Undeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.","This box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Note by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.","Scales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.","Spectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.","Ivory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.","Note with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.","Scope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.","Round medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.","Mexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.","Mexican woven purse.","Miscellaneous hand-worked cards.","Petit point patterns.","\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.","This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"","Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.","Note stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.","Thermometer in case belonging to John Millington.","Drafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.","This box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.","Scope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"","Mexican figurine of a monk.","Scope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"","Miner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830.\"","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.","Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Thomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn","Blankenship family","Millington family","Millington, John, 1779-1868","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395"],"normalized_title_ssm":["John Millington Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Millington Papers"],"collection_ssim":["John Millington Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"geogname_ssim":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"creator_ssm":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creator_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creators_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"places_ssim":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gifts were made by Dr. Millington (grandson of J. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information:"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History:"],"custodhist_tesim":["The material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["John Millington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["The collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington Collection (UA 6.015)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRoll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAll of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["John Millington Collection (UA 6.015)","Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)","The personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries.","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.","All of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMillington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp;amp; to dine with him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Purchased March, 1968)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"about not calling\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp;amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMillington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement by John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp;amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp;amp; his coming to town....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp;amp; Mary College Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp;amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp;amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his account with the company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his business with that firm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding settlement of an estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding transfer of money received for his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his accounts in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp;amp; to send the title deeds.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePAM.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; John Millington's move to a new residence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the death of her husband. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA bank check.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding her life in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutogaphed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding property in Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the death of their father (John Millington).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 pages. TDr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCover for some of next 14 papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the same subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the value of a book on medals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: list of particular gifts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplication blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDonated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNames and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper Clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp;amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragile.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 100 stereocard photographs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIvory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRound medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican woven purse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous hand-worked cards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetit point patterns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThermometer in case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican figurine of a monk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. 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Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.","Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.","Typewritten copy.","Scope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.","Reprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.","Scope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.","Scope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.","Sworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp; to dine with him.\"","Answer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.","(Purchased March, 1968)","Concerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)","Scope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.","Scope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.","Endorsement: \"about not calling\".","Scope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).","Scope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"","Millington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.","Printed Material. Card.","Scope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"","Scope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.","For an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.","Issued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"","James Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.","Scope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.","Sarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.","Memorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.","Scope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.","Endorsement by John Millington.","Introducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Introducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Scope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.","Introducing John Millington.","Introducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.","Scope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.","Includes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.","Scope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.","Scope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.","Endorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.","Scope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.","Printed Material.","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"","Appointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.","J. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.","Printed invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.","Scope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.","Scope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp; his coming to town....\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"","Endorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp; Mary College Library.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"","Endorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"","Scope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.","Scope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.","Scope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"","Scope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.","An account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"","Scope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.","Scope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.","Scope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.","He writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"","Regarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.","Endorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"","Enclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.","Enclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.","Regarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.","Enclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.","Regarding his account with the company.","Regarding his business with that firm.","Regarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.","Regarding settlement of an estate.","Endorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"","Regarding transfer of money received for his account.","Endorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"","Regarding his accounts in England.","A promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.","Regarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.","Regarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.","Regarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.","Order for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.","News of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp; to send the title deeds.\"","PAM.","From a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.","Family news; John Millington's move to a new residence.","Regarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.","Sent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.","Deed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.","Regarding the death of her husband. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.","Letter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.","A bank check.","Family news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"","Regarding her life in England.","Regarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.","Scope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.","Endorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"","Regarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.","Regarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.","Scope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.","Receipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.","Scope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.","Scope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.","Scope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.","Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping.","PADS.","Scope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.","Scope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.","Autogaphed document.","Scope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.","Scope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.","Scope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.","Scope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.","Scope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.","Scope and Contents Business matters.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"","Regarding property in Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.","Regarding the death of their father (John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Regarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.","Scope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.","Scope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.","Scope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.","Scope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.","Scope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.","Newspaper clipping.","Contains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.","AV.","AV.","AV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December","AV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December","AV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December","AV.","AV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December","AV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865","AV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December","AV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October","AV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December","Death of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.","59 pages. TDr.","Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.","Cover for some of next 14 papers.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Regarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.","Scope and Contents On the same subject.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.","Scope and Contents Regarding a furlough.","Scope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.","Scope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.","Scope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.","Scope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"","Newspaper clipping.","Scope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.","Scope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.","Scope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.","Regarding the value of a book on medals.","Scope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.","Enclosure: list of particular gifts.","Regarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.","Report of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.","Appreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.","Unknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.","Regarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.","Regarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.","Appreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.","Newspaper clipping.","Application blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.","Printed material.","Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Notice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping","Regarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.","Regarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.","Names and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.","Scope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.","Stating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).","Scope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.","Enclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.","Annie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.","See John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.","Newspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.","Included is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping","Scope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material. Card.","Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Newspaper Clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Includes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.","3 photographs.","\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.","Includes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","One has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Identified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"","Includes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.","Photograph.","Includes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.","Three cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.","By William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.","\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.","Endorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Cooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Scope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Greetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Endorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.","Photograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in","67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","Records and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","John Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.","13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.","7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.","[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]","Approximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011","Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.","Fragile.","Scope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"","Scope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"","Approximately 100 stereocard photographs","[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]","Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.","Glass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.","Undeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.","This box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Note by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.","Scales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.","Spectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.","Ivory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.","Note with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.","Scope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.","Round medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.","Mexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.","Mexican woven purse.","Miscellaneous hand-worked cards.","Petit point patterns.","\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.","This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"","Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.","Note stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.","Thermometer in case belonging to John Millington.","Drafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.","This box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.","Scope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"","Mexican figurine of a monk.","Scope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"","Miner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830.\""],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRoll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArtifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.","Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. 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(later renamed \"Gay Mont\") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal documents and letters of John Taylor of Caroline. Of special interest are the diaries of Eugenia D. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Original Accession and additions physically and intellectually combined in 2009.","See the Finding Aide/Inventory for a brief description."," Original Accession of 14 boxes grouped by type of material, then chronologically within these groups."," Most of the additions to this collections are not yet processed.","John Hipkins Bernard was the son of William Bernard and Fannie Hipkins Bernard. His grandfather was John Hipkins. Bernard inherited \"Rose Hill,\"Caroline County, Va. from his grandfather and renamed it \"Gay Mont\" in honor of his wife Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, the sister of Governor Wyndham Robertson. Bernard's daughter Helen Struan Bernard Robb bought her siblings' interest in \"Gay Mont.\" Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  .","Other Information:"," A PDF document of this inventory is available online."," Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/65_R54_Robb-Bernard.pdf","Original Accession and additions physically and intellectually combined in 2009."," Most additions to this accession have not been processed nor an inventory created.  Please see the short descriptions under each Series in the Box and Folder listing."," Acc. 2012.112 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2012. Acc. 2013.052 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in March 2013.","Papers, 1800-1901, of and relating to John Hipkins and John Hipkins Bernard (mostly accounts); of and relating to members of the Hipkins, Bernard and Robb families; and relating to the Hipkins-Bernard-Robb home \"Rose Hill,\" Caroline County, Va. (later renamed \"Gay Mont\") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal documents and letters of John Taylor of Caroline. Of special interest are the diaries of Eugenia D. Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Germany and Japan during and after World War II (1999.56A)."," Additions include other material on the Robb, Bernard, Upton and Hipkins families from the 19th century through the 20th century."," Check the Finding Aid/Inventory and the PDF Inventory for descriptions and/or folder lists of original accession and all additions.","Original Accession.","D. Wilkie, Kensington [London], to James Wilson Croker. Accepts membership in club and returns list as reqested.","Includes information about the Robb-Bernard Family Papers and information about the Robb-Bernard family. Also includes various items within the Robb-Bernard Family Papers.","The Family of William \u0026 Elizabeth Bolling Robertson by James Samuel Patton - printed","\"The Family of William Robertson and his wife Elizabeth Bolling\" - mimeographed","Copies of Bible Records: 1. William and Elizabeth Bolling Robertson 2. Philip and Mary Warner Lewis Lightfoot 3. James and Lucy Waring Robb","John H. Bernard's Commission as Captain in the Virginia militia, May 20, 1815","Prayer by [John H. Bernard], [circa 1855], copied by [Helen S. Bernard]","\"John Hipkins, Merchant, Of Port Royal, Virginia\" - typed","Legal papers relating to the settlement of the estate of John Hipkins.  Inventories, law suits, and accounts between Elizabeth Hipkins, John H. Bernard, and others and William Bernard, Executor.  1 October 1801 - 20 November 1816.  (21 items)","Includes 13 items of Elizabeth Hipkins; 3 items of John Hipkins; and 11 items of John H. Bernard.","Detailed inventories, accounts, and legacies of Elizabeth Hipkins' estate. March 13, 1804 - November 23, 1829. (13 items).","John Hipkins' documents [?]. October 1802 - August 14, 1804. (3 items).","John H. Bernard indenture. July 10, 1804. (1 item).","John H. Bernard documents regarding the tract of land in Richmond County called \"Folly.\" April 3, 1818 - 1827[?]. (4 items).","John H. Bernard indentures regarding [Townfield] land in Caroline County, near Port Royal. July 3, 1818 and January 1, 1819. (2 items).","John H. Bernard and others indentures, lands in Caroline County, November 14, 1816; May2, 1817 \"Westerton\"; May 26, 1819 Port Royal; and June 15, 1831 Port Royal. (4 items).","Elizabeth Hipkins' mortgage book.  23 July 1808 - June 1830.  (1 item).","Ledger - accounts. First half of 1800s. (1 item).","Includes legal papers of William Bernard and John H. Bernard's notes, bills, receipts, etc.","Includes the notes, bills, receipts, accounts, and statements of John H. Bernard.  Also, the legal paper, receipts, and bills of William Bernard.","John H. Bernard notes, bills, receipts, accounts, statements. January 9, 1812 - May 2, 1818. (115 items).","William Bernard legal papers - receipts and bills. February 17, 181[3] - November 12, 1853. (18 items). (For more letters of William Bernard see business correspondence of John H. Bernard).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1818. (50 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1819. (86 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1820 (44 items); 1821 (17 items); 1822 (8 items); 1823 (15 items); 1824 (58 items); 1825 (52 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1826 (39 items); 1827 (24 items); 1828 (34 items); 1829 (48 items); 1830 (88 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.  1831 (72 items); 1832 (83 items); 1833 (81 items).  Gay Bernard accounts, 1832-1836 (5 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1834 (62 items); 1835 (32 items); 1836 (39 items); 1837 (52 items); 1838 (74 items); 1839 (36 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1840 (9 items); 1841 (42 items); 1842 (53 items); 1843 (16 items); 1844 (14 items); 1845 (50 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1846 (45 items); 1847 (43 items); 1848 (29 items); 1849 (40 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1850 (27 items); 1851 (54 items); 1852 including Arkansas land taxes (55 items); 1853 (59 items); 1854 (48 items); 1855 (22 items).","John H. Bernard and William R. Bernard bills, receipts and notes, etc. 1855-1860.","John H. Bernard accounts with William S. Quisenberry. 1831-1835.","John H. Bernard accounts with James Jackson. 1854 and 1857.","John H. Bernard accounts with William Farinholt. 1836-1839.","John H. Bernard accounts with William R. Care. 1834-1840.","John H. Bernard accounts, bills and receipts with William Gray and Company, Port Royal, Virginia. 1811-1839.","John H. Bernard Alabama Plantation Accounts. 1837-1852. Green County, Alabama.","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.. Dates unknown. (121 itmes).","John H. Bernard's receipt of the return of a runaway slave. March 15, 1834. (1 item).","Includes the will and bank books of John H. Bernard; legacies of Jane Gay Bernard; a copy of Robert G. Robb's will; and 1 document of Helen S. Robb.","John H. Bernard bank books. 1839-1845. (2 items).","John H. Bernard's will. 1841.","Jane Gay Bernard legacies. Unsigned, undated. [She died July 1852].","Copy of Robert G. Robb's will, December 13, 1852, and a statement to its validity.","Document of Helen S. Robb, October 5, 1881, directing that her husband, Philip L. Robb, shall manage her property.","Miscellaneous papers, 1800-1830.","John H. Bernard. 624 Checks. April 3, 1816 - November 20, 1854.","John H. Bernard and Family - scraps, visiting cards, envelopes.","13 items of Helen S. Robb and 1 pencil sketch.","Helen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) Confederate bonds. (3 items).","Helen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) settlements, accounts, bills and envelopes. 1859-1898. (10 items).","Pencil sketch. Dated 18 May [?]. (1 item).","Includes notebook of Helen S. Robb and diary of Helen Struan Bernard.","Helen S. Robb notebook containing accounts, receipts, poetry, etc. Late 19th century.","Unbound diary of Helen Struan Bernard [Mrs. P.L. Robb], 1848-1862.","Includes publications, extracts from publications, a report card, advertisments, and a photograph of the tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs.","Extracts from papers and magazines.","Volume 1, number 1, Southern Temperance Star, with account of October 1834 meeting of the Virginia State Temperance Society, January 1835.","Waldie's Select Circulating Library, including Part I, number 1, 1 January 1835.  8 different issues, 1835 and 1836.","Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Volume XCVIII, Number 586, Philadelphia, April 1879.  1 copy.","A Glance At Current American History by an Ex-Confederate, 1897.","Extracts from daily papers. Advertising matter. Undated and September 15, 1857.","Report card from B.B. Minor's school for young ladies for Helen S. Bernard dated for Quarter ending 31 October 1850. School regulations and costs are on the reverse side dated 23 September 1850.","Broadsides, \"Fenton's Patent Flint Enamel Ware,\" Patent secured November 27, 1849. 2 copies. Also, \"Prospect House and Terrace Garden, Table Rock, Canada West.\" undated.","Pamphlet, \"Parcel Post Information.\" undated.","Advertisements for carriages sent to Helen S. Robb, Port Royal, Virginia, May 25, 1899, from George Gravatt, Carriage Manufacturer, Federicksburg, Virginia.","Illustrative materials. (4 items).","Incomplete publication. Chapter II and III: \"Latitude, Longitude, and Time\" and \"The Moon\", also \"The Solar System.\"","Magazine photograph of Gay Mount, about 1920.","Photograph of tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs, great grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. Among other names on the tombstone is that of Wyndham Robertson, Governor of Virginia. (Photograph is mounted and is torn in half).","Manuscript poems. This group of papers consists of original poems [\"poetical, political prophetical effusions\"] by Jane Gay Bernard. Some responses from her friends are also included. Predominantly undated.","Unbound manuscript diary. This group of papers consists of sporadic entries in a diary of Jane Gay Robertson [wife of John Hipkins Bernard] through the years 1825-1849.","Indentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1665-1814.","Indentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1736-1805.","Includes bills of sale, documents, letters, a bond, and an unidentified manuscript.","Bills of sale of slaves. 1816-1849.","Documents and letters regarding land. 1715-1819.","Bond. 1826.","Unidentified manuscript.","Includes indentures and a note.","Indentures. 1787 and 1801.","Note. 1792.","Includes indentures, certificates, deeds, terms of agreement, and surveys.","Indentures. 1756-1810.","Certificates. 1804.","Deeds. 1743-1805.","Terms of agreement. 1810.","Surveys. 1741-1796.","John Taylor of Caroline County. Documents and correspondence. 1800-1824. (Materals regarding John H. Bernard and John Hipkins).","Philip Lightfoot notes, accounts, receipts, etc. 1810-1837. (19 items).","Includes notes and receipts of Robert G. Robb and repayment of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.","Robert G. Robb notes and receipts. 1841-1842. (5 items).","Repayment in 1924 of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.","Includes a boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller; a proclamation by R[obert] E. Lee; and Confederate secret signals.","Boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller, September 2, 1806. (1 item).","Proclamation to People of Maryland by R[obert] E. Lee. 1863. Copy. (1 item).","Confederate secret signals along the Rappahannock River. [1863?]. (2 items).","Miscellaneous accounts and receipts. 1835-1954. (9 items).","Record Book of the Trustees of Rappahannock Academy. 1810-1822.","Correspondence. March 5, 1791 - August 3, 1836. Including: Letter from Wyndam Robertson, February 25, 1817. Senator W.C. Rives' letter on his senate speech regarding nullification, March 7, 1833. Letter from James Barbour, May 12, 1834. Letter on land speculation, June 8, 1834, and opportunities in Alabama. Letter on land speculation in Arkansas and Louisiana, November 4, 1835. Letter on land speculation in Texas, and predicting defeat of the Mexican army by fall, August 3, 1836.","Correspondence, January 17, 1837 - November 10, 1841. Including: John Bradshaw, Middlebury College graduate, letter applying for teaching position in John H. Bernard's academy, May 13, 1841. Letters to and from John H. Bernard, his agents, lawyers, overseers, primarily relating to his Alabama, Arkansas, and Texan lands, 1837-1841.","Correspondence. March 1, 1842 - November 20, 1843. Including: Letters to and from John H. Bernard regarding his Arkansas, Alabama, and Texan lands, 1842-1843. Printed copy of John C. Calhoun's senate speech on the treaty of Washington, August 1842.","Correspondence March 9, 1844 - December 28, 1849. Including: Inventory of slaves, stock, tools, and acres planted on Bernard's Greene County, Alabama plantation, March 18, 1844. Letter commenting on migration from Arkansas to Texas, California, and Mexico, January 17, 1845. Letter from General Leslie Combs of Kentucky, November 12, 1845. J.H. Bernard's letter of advice to his son in college, February 15, 1846. Letter on religion and the way to salvation, September 27, 1846. Letter on social life, theatre, balls, weddings in Richmond, March 1847. Broadside of Fredericksburg Female Seminary, August 6, 1849.","Correspondence. 1850 - October 20, 1861. Including: Letter, January 20, 1851, regarding burning of St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans at time of Jenny Lind's visit. Trip to Vicksburg and up the Yazoo River to new plantation, reception, and life on the plantation from G.F.W., December 13, 1860. Letter from G.F.W. on national crisis, secession, and plantation plans, January 21, 1861.","Correspondence. June 18, 1862 - December 2, 1870. Including: Family letters to and from the Robbs at Gay Mont and their relatives and friends, January 1863.","Correspondence. February 9, 1871 - March 29, 1887.","Correspondence. April 4, 1887 - December 22, 1889. Including: Family letters to and from friends in Washington, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, April 1887.","Correspondence. January 4, 1890 - June 30, 1893. Including: Letter from A.H.A. Bernard on family genealogy, dining with Thomas Jefferson, and tutoring James Monrow, January 1891. Letter on exams at [Virginia Polytechnic Institute], February 1, 1891. Letters from \"Robin\" Robert G. Robb at William and Mary, December 3, 1891; January 8, 1892; April 17, 1892; November 20, 1892; December 11, 1892; March 20, 1893; March 26, 1893; May 10, 1893; May 28, 1893; and June 4, 1893. Letter to Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, January 9, 1892. Letter on commencement at Brown University and travel in New England, June 30, 1893.","Correspondence. July 10, 1893 - February 1897. Including: Robert G. Robb letters from the University of Virginia, September 19, 1893; February 14, 1894; April 15, 1894; April 22, 1894; May 6, 1894; October 3, 1894; October 7, 1894; October 28, 1894; November 4, 1894; November 18, 1894; November 25, 1894; January 13, 1895; February 10, 1895; October 1895; October 20, 1895; October 27, 1895; January 26, 1896; January 24, 1897.","Correspondence. July 1897 - September 11, 1901. Including: Letters regarding Robert G. Robb's appointment to the chair of Mathematics in the Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama, July and August 1891. Letter of Robert G. Robb at the University of Virginia, July 22, 1900.","Correspondence, publications, bills, receipts, etc. September 17, 1907 - May 18, 1936 and undated.","Loose envelopes and cards","2 empty portfolios","Diary of William Robb Bernard, 1870-1875. Jane Gay Robertson, 1812 memo book.","Xerox copy of typescript of letters in the form of a journal. John Hipkins Bernard's European Journey, 1818-1819 with Powhatan Robertson's.","Vols. 3 and 4 of Powhatan Robertson's European tour, 1818-1819. Manuscript diaries.","Copies of transcribed letters written by Bernard Robb to his family in \"Gay Mont\" Virginia while he was a student at the College of William and Mary. Two 1893 letters from his mother, Helen S. Bernard Robb, to her son, Robert G. Robb. WHRA. 1 folder.","The collection is mainly comprised of correspondence from the various Robbs and Bernards, as well as their relations the Uptons, who were originally from southern Maine. As well as the correspondence, there are also a few other items, such as Frances Upton's journal from a family trip to Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, between July 4 and August 9, 1928. Other items of interest are letters from a Netherlands woman named Mary to Frances Upton immediately following World War II (1945-1955,) along with letters home from Robert Upton during World War II","Twentieth-century Robb and Upton (maiden name of Mrs. Patton) family papers. List of dates of correspondence and names of correspondants filed at beginning of box.","Two letters of Sally Tompkins to Helen Robb, ca. 1878, and Dr. Martin Pickett Scott to his wife, 12 April 1879. 1878-1879.","Notebook of reminscences by Frances Robb's father, former professor of Chemistry, concerning Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. 1 folder.","Three letters to Frances Robb (Mrs. Robert G. Robb) in 1943 and 1951; one letter to Gay Robertson from Powhatan Robertson dated April 27, 1876 and one letter from Frances Robb to Mrs. Geratt, about 1920. 1 folder.","Diary and letters of Eugenia Robb from occupied Japan while Eugenia Robb was serving with the American Red Cross. Typescripts. Also a few letters from Italy. Detailed informative letters and diary. Original to come by bequest. 1945-47.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Letters written home by Eugenia van Dyke Robb defining her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan with the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescripts of autograph letters signed. (Originals of 36 letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 4.)","Three letters written by Eugenia van Dyke Robb when she was working for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, 1951-1953. Typescripts of autograph letters signed.","21 photographs taken by and of Eugenia van Dyke Robb in the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt.  Photographs.","Typescript of selected poems of Helen Struan Robb of \"Gay Mont\" aunt of the donor. Poem by donor's father Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.","Five poems by Helen Struan Robb, aunt of Eugenia Robb. The poems are entitled \"Beyond\", \"Absence\", \"To the Wood Robin\", \"Night Song\", and \"Love's Dawn\".","Two poems by Philip Lightfoot Robb, one entitled \"Sunbeam\" written to his daughter Eugenia Robb and the other entitled \"A Memory, the Homeward Path\" written about his beloved home \"Gaymont.\"","\"Moonlight,\" a poem by Eugenia Robb was written in Sendai, Japan in July 1946.","Typescript of diary and 5 letters of Eugenia Robb, 1947, during her assignment with the American Red Cross in Stuttgart, Germany. Also, 8 photographs of scenes in Germany. (Originals of six letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 2.) 3 folders.","Diaries, one scrapbook and letters of Eugenia Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Japan, Philippines, and Germany. Letters from Rome, Italy, 1951-1953. Includes items labeled MsV 1, 2, 3 and 4. 4 folders. 36 original letters from this accession were added to folder 4 of Acc. 1999.34. 6 original letters from this accession were added to folder 2 of Acc. 1999.56A.","5 items relating to Eugenia Robb's stay in Japan including a map tracing her sea voyage from Washington, D.C. to the Philippine Islands in December, 1945; her article about a well known Japanese flower arranger, the first Japanese brochure published after the war, two poems written by her father, Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.; and one poem written by herself.","Letters of principally Philip Lightfoot Robb, 1892-1896, while attending Cleveland High School in Fauquier County, Virginia.","Memorandum, 26 October 1932, between R. G. Robb and others to receive heat from the College of William and Mary (includes letter, 1937, and resolutions, 1937, of the Board of Visitors); letter, 14 March 1944, of G. E. Meanley to members of the Fort Magruder Fishing Club; pages from the Bulletin of the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society which contains an article (March 1932, Vol. IX, No. 6) of R. G. Robb \"Development of the Department of Chemistry at the College of William and Mary\" and appointment, 1930, of Robert Gilchrist Robb as Major in the Chemical Warfare Service (reserves). 1 folder. Fort Magruder Fishing Club letter transferred to Acc. 2002.46 Fort Magruder Fishing Club Papers.","Eugenia Robb's travel journal to Spain during the summer of 1952 and Philip L. Robb's song \"Tis Cupid wires my Heart to You.\"","Class of June 1948, Baltimore City College, Banquet Program honoring Phillip L. Robb, Teacher and Department Head of Chemistry, 1901-1948, with newspaper clipping concerning his retirement; certificate of distinction awarded to Philip L. Robb, June 7,1893, from Cleveland High School; May 1980 issue of Good Reading, including an article by Eugenia Van Dyke Robb entitled \"Picasso of the Flowers.\" 1 folder.","Large collection of papers, books and more given by James S. Patton.","Scrapbook about \"Welcum Hinges\" a book written by Bernard Robb. Contains printed articles and reviews. Photograph of portrait of John Hipkins Bernard. Photographs of Sutton Hall and St. Bartholomew's Church. Photograph of John Bernard Robb. Copy of 1857 pages from diary of Helen S. Bernard of \"Gay Mont,\" Caroline County, Virginia. Copies of correspondence of the Robb and Bernard Families from William and Mary Collection, 1857-1874. Copy of newspaper announcement of the marriage of Frederick Smith-Shenstone on February 6, 1873. Correspondence between John Sclater of London with James S. Patton and between East Sussex County Records Office and James S. Patton about Sutton Hall visit and genealogy. 1995. Portion of book written by John Sclater on the Sclater Family. Maps showing Sutton Hall area.","Gaymont Collection, a gift from APVA. Not yet processed. June 2013 Architectural Digest, p. 150, \"American Revival\" by Julia Reed about the history and restoration of Gay Mont added by staff in 2013. Includes several nineteenth-century cased photographs and early twentieth-century photographs.","William and Mary Senior Honor Thesis, April 2001, \"A Palace Called Beautiful, Virginia Women, The Confederacy and the Transmission of Southern Culture\" by Amanda Elizabeth Creekman.","Correspondence with A. Randolph Howard and the Navy Department about securing a memento of the Battleship Richmond for Mrs. William Augustine Smith who christened the Richmond when she was launched in 1860. Mrs. Smith was Harriett Field Robb, the daughter of Captain Robert Gilchrist Robb, U.S.N. and at that tiime, Commander of the Norfolk, Virginia Navy Yard.  Allen Randolph Howard was married to Frances Lightfoot Smith, the daughter of Mrs. William Augustine Smith.","Consist of war ration books for member of the Robb family, as well as Robert J. (Bobby) Robb's Matthew Whaley High School yearbooks, 1948-1950. Yearbooks contain many personalized dedications.","For members of the Robb family of Williamsburg, Va.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Photograph, ca. 1904, of a painting of Frances Randolph (Howard) Robb (b. 1894) at the age of 10. 1 folder.","Included are war ration books for the Robb family, an information sheet concerning registration for war ration books, as well as a tag for a shipment from Scotland imprinted with a Williamsburg business name: \"Cogar, Lewis and Geiger, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.\" 1 folder.","Primarily letters, 1944-1964, written by Earl Gregg Swem to Robert Robb and Frances Robb.  Also contains clippings related to Earl Gregg Swem, a card from John Stewart Bryan, and an invitation to dinner from John Stewart Bryan.","Contains letters, 1892, from Robert Gilchrist Robb to his mother and to Bernard Robb. There are also programs, 1944, from Bruton Parish Church.  1 folder.","Letters, 1939-1945, from Robert Hunt Land, College of William and Mary librarian, to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb. Land primarily wrote these letters while on the USS Brooklyn during World War II.  3 folders.","Contains letters, 1949-1952, written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb to her son, Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., while he was serving in the Army.  3 folders.","Letters addressed to members of the Robb family. Includes one letter, 1944 from a religious organization in Alaska, addressed to Robert Gilchrist Robb, to which the Robb family seemed to donate. There is also a Christmas card, 1992, addressed to Frances Robb.","Includes the baptismal record and accompanying letter from W.A.R. Goodwin of Frances Robb, a map of Cheatham Annex, a note written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb, and a booklet published by John Garland Pollard entitled \"A Connotary: Definitions not Found in Dictionaries.\"","Contains photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, and other material relating to the Robb and Bernard Families. The bulk of the accession consists of photographs and scrapbooks of family members, reunions, and family visits. Also included in the collection are Bruton Parish Church newsletters, material related to the Nicolas Mortiau Descendants Association; and travel diaries of Frances Robb during the 1920s.","Includs letters written to Robert Gilchrist Robb by residents of Williamsburg, including Janet Kimbrough, and material relating to the portrait of Robert Gilchrist Robb which hangs in the Special Collections Research Center.","Letters from Robert Hunt Land to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb, while Land was serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II.","Fragments of three letters written in the same hand, perhaps by someone with the first or last name \"Randolph.\"","Includes a diary of Frances Randolph Howard, letters of Robert Gilchrist Robb, and letters of J. Patton.","Contains letters to Frances Randolph Howard from various family members including William Key Howard, Carrie Stuart Davis, Frances Upton, and Nina Stuart Smith; photographs of William Taylor Smith and Clara Haxall Randolph; and the roll book of Robert Gilchrist Robb while a chemistry professor at William and Mary from 1944 to 1945.","Letters written by William Key Howard to his sister Frances R. Howard. In the earliest letters William mentions school and alludes to his outdoor hobbies: buying fishing tackle and shotgun shells. The later letters were written from old family estate known as Gay Mont, in Rappahannock Academy, Virginia, which belonged to the Robb-Bernard branch of the family. Letters concering hunting, swimming, and horseback riding summers of 1921 and 1922. Mentions numerous cousins who visted Gay Mont. The final letters were written from Fredericksburg, Virginia where William attended Fredericksburg High School. Contains two postcards to William from his sister Frances.","Letters from January 1923- May 1924 from William to his sister Frances while he attended Fredericksburg High School.  Also writes of getting a job with a liner, participation in military training exercises, as well as of target practice and drill. References to the building of the new armory.  Mentions a trip to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina- one letter written from Ft. Bragg tells sister he is now \"Pvt. W.K. Howard\"-it appears he was in the Army Reserve or the National Guard. Mentions his birthday and being promoted to sergeant.  Writes of football games, his Indian artifact collection, plans to visit Gay Mont and Canning, as well as his travelling by train to Kansas. Folder contains copy of letter from Fredericksburg High School to William's father concerning tuition and course schedule issues.  William also mentions his plans to attend V.P.I.  Photograph to sister of hazing tradition 'Rat Parade'.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances, from V.I.P. which express his dissatisfaction with the school. Feels he is wasting his time at the school, though he enjoys the athletics. His company won inter-company basketball and football championships, he took first place in shot put and second in javelin throwing. Mentions inspection of the school, which is labeled as 8th best in country, as well as a large fire near the school. Mentions letters of his guardian and financial advisor Mr. Young. Money from Mr. Young to buy Liberty Bond. He writes of going to see \"The Birth of a Nation.\"  He mentions Black people in the theater were clapping when the character Lynch  was carried through the street on the shoulders of celebrating Black people.  He writes that \"they had K.Ks. up in the gallery to keep the colored people quite [sic].\" William works on a ship as deck boy. Mentions going to see \"The Birth of a Nation\". Contains a letter from the Davey Tree Expert Company dated October 16, 1925 accepting William's acceptance into their tree surgeon program.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Howard. Writes of his training with Davey Tree Expert Company in Kent, Ohio. Mentions learning knots and how to work with the ropes.  Sent to Pennsylvania for paid field work, as well as Maryland.  Worries about keeping this job for the long term. Considers selling his Virginia Excelsior Company stock- thinks he and sister will get $6,000 each. Mentions Mr. Young his guardian (perhaps the same person as Mr. Edgar M. Young president of the Virginia Excelsior Company) William's father is connected with this company. Sister is getting married to Robert Gilchrist Robb in June.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Robb (nee Howard). William is working temporarily as crew member on a ship-sails to Antwerp and Rotterdam.  Returns and resumes job with Davey Tree Expert Company.  Works near Baltimore Maryland.  Mentions lay offs by \"Ford\". Leaves job at Davey Tree Expert Company in September and works for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Corporation. Longs for the sea.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William writes of having \"sent that lock of Boothe's [sic] hair that Grandma had to the Confederate Museum in Richmond.\" Mentions marital problems between his father and his second wife (Amy Margaret), she might move back to Texas. Mentions Frances and husband Robert Gilchrist Robb moving into the Paradise (Ludwell-Paradise) House on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. Longs for the sea, Frances worries about him when he sails. Desires to work on a ship through the Shipping Board. Some letters written while at sea on the SS Eastern Dawn which sailed to Europe including Antwerp. Contains photographs.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William spends winter months working on steamships sailing for Europe, ports including Copenhagan and Finland.  Inquires if there is work for tree surgeons in the restoration of Williamsburg- later says doesn't think Williamsburg,and contracting company Underwood, can afford him. Mentions time spent at Fall Hill, and friend Fred Robinson. Many Letters written from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania where he is doing tree work. Mentions joining the Virginia National Guard-training at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Writes of opprotunity to partly own a gold mine with his friend Lynn-mine is located in Honduras. William and friend Robbie contemplate going there. Novmeber 3, he mentions stock market and the crash.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions getting a job as a watchman at Kenmore (the one time home of George Washington's sister) which is being renovated.  Estate once belonged to William's grandfather William Key Howard Sr. as well as his Uncle Willam Key Howard Jr. He must keep watch at night- so he sleeps there.  Mentions cousin John Randolph died.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of moving to Belle Hill, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Works for the National Park Service, specifically as park superintendant of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Includes Newspaper clippings and announcement of his marriage to Elizabeth Burke Crismond on March 18, 1937. Father dies, mentions funeral-he is executor of father's estate-details. Mentions housewarming for new home at the park for Branch Spalding (coordinating superintendent for Virginia Civil War parks).","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions a war and a trip to the Baltic including stops at \"Danzig, Helsingford [sic] and Murmansk\". Mentions attending a fire training school and refers to a serious problem with Bob's (Robert Gilchrist Robb) eye.  Writes about his being discharged from the Virginia National Guard (?). Mentions plans for new job.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes he has volunteered for the Army, mentions that wife, Liz and their two daughters, will live in Spotsylvania Court House while he is away. Mentions renting his Belle Hill home to a soldier, and wants to rent the large house too. Mentions Army induction at Bowling Green and then moves to Camp Lee. He is stationed at Salem Airbase in Oregon for training. Mentions training experiences and his \"expert\" marksmanship. Believes he will be stationed behind the lines in war. Reassigned to \"Ono siding\" near San Bernardino, California. Describes location and his job there. Mentions plans to visit Los Angeles and Mexico, as well as visiting Hollywood where they made \"The Birth of a Nation\".","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes the he is applying for \"agriculturalist discharge\", his Belle Hill farm is no longer being cared for due to labor shortages, his request is denied.  Mentions concern for Robert Gilchrist Robb who recently fainted and requires bed rest.  Mentions the weather of San Bernardino.  Mentions his furlough being cancelled many times, wants to visit family in Virginia for Christmas.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of 700 Italian prisoners coming to a camp near San Bernardino, California, and their housing. Writes of camp life, mentions government-produced films being shown to the men. Mentions the weather of San Bernardino. References family in Virginia and responds to news from Frances, mentions his neice and her accomplishments. Included is a letter to William from Frances which mentions that her daughter will be attending Sweet Briar College. William mentions doings of other men like working at \"Kaisers steel mills\". Mentions his working extra hours for extra money for his upcoming furlough, received the good conduct metal which he finds ironic because he often breaks the rules. Includes pictures.","Letters from William Key Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of his quartermaster in San Bernardino, California being disbanded and of his transfer to Ft. Lewis near Seatle, Washington, expects to be assigned to medical duty. At Ft. Lewis he must go through basic training again and eight weeks of technical training. Describes his training experiences including a film entitled \"The Colored Soldier\", discusses race and the military. Anticipates his furlough at the end of training. Mentions many AWOLs and unit break ups- so the Army increased furloughs to raise moral. Mentions camp life at Ft. Lewis and his plans to visit Tokoma and Seattle, he prefers Seattle. Responds to news about his family and friends back home, mentions Robert Robb's illness many times, Robb had a blood clot and was bedridden.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions Robert Robb's upcoming retirement from William and Mary at the end of the 1945-1946 school year.  William began working at Quantico in 1945, received his terminal leave pay in December 1947. Alludes to nephew (Robert Robb Jr.) joining the Army. Mentions attending the dedication of a Stuart tablet at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in King George County, Virginia. Writes of visits to Gay Mont and of planting rye at Belle Hill.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb, mostly news about activities, health, and location of family members both immediate and distant. Mentions wife Liz being in Jamestown for Queen Elizabeth's visit. Gay Mont sold in 1958. Writes that he moved furniture and personal property: paintings (one by Sully sent to Frances). Appears upset about sale of Gay Mont. A 1958 map of Gay Mont included and hints that Pattons might buy Gay Mont soon. A few letters to Frances Robb from both William and his wife which mention France's daughter Fran having surgery twice. William works for the fire department at Quantico as well as at his farm Belle Hill.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions helping clean up debris left by the fire at Gay Mont, alludes to the Pattons' intention to restore the house.  Mentions his daughters, Ellen and Cary, attending Mary Washington College, Ellen also spent some time at William and Mary.  Mentions having portraits restored one of Ellen and one of Alice.  Comments on the inauguration of John F. Kennedy which he viewed on television.  References situation in Berlin and advises sister to buy extra food each week to build a supply.  William has been copying Uncle William's Civil War diary which mentions the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg which he was able to avoid. Includes a copy of an article \"The Valleys of Virginia- The Rappahannock\" published in 1859- mentions Port Royal, Gay Mont, and slave working conditions in the region. Folder also includes a captioned photograph from a newsletter (?) commemorating William K. Howard's thirty years of services as a firefighter.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions daughters Ellen and Cary were home for Christmas, going to Washington D.C. to visit Amy. Mamie had Christmas dinner with the Howards, Mamie injured herself after Christmas. Letter from Liz Howard to Frances about Christams, mentions John Glenn's flight on television and Bill's truck problems. Mentions snow storm of 15 inches and loss of power for 32 hours. Bill and Liz celebrated 25th wedding aniversary April 1962. Discusses school plans as well as work and summer plans for Cary and Ellen. Eugenia may have had a stroke 1962. Mentions a midnight Christmas service at St. George. Amy fell down stairs and broke her pelvis. Saw the Mona Lisa in Washington D.C. Mentions the marriage of Mr. Brigham to a Spencer from Williamsburg. Mentions that Jim will be out of the service in 1963. Writes of farm and animal life. Liz receives Mama's diamond. Mentions Belle Hill's estate price. Discusses Amy's will.","Letters, cards, and newspaper clippings to Frances Robb (Mrs. R.G. Robb). Bill retired his daughter Cary moved to Fairfax. Mentions Ellen and Cary's affairs. Cary and Ellen drive to Lake Tahoe. Ford Motor Company is interested in Freedom Hill. Bill and Liz celebrate their 29th anniversary. Mentions some purchases from Miller and Rhoads. Cary goes to Athens, Georgia mentions KKK trials. Mentions Bill and Lem Houston's march on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bill in court as witness about over assesment. William dies February 10, 1898. Manzie dies October 20, 1913- letters from Hollywood grave stones. Thank-you note from Liz. Mentions a trip to Montross. Thank-you letter for tulips. Mentions a 50 cent pieces Bobby is saving and plans of Ellen and Patti's trip to Europe.","Letters and cards from Bill and Liz to sister Frances Robb. Mentions affairs of Mamie, her moving, the sale of her house to Bill, her health, and estate. Writes of Clara and her health, operation, and later her death. Affairs of Cary and Ellen, schooling, travels, and their weddings. Writes on politics and the meeting of the Eight District of Legion. Mentions some dental problems, and that Olive Swanson from LaVere died. Also mentions Olive's sisters Blanche and Lousie Cassell and also mentions a geneology booklet about the Tuckahoe Randolphs being recently acquired. Writes of visiting Tuckahoe and Richmond with Buff and Sally. Nora is in hospital. Mincie Polock died and Bill died. Liz and Dorothy Harris visit Prince William, Manassas. Mentions a painting by Sully in Governor's Mansion. Bill elected to be Key Man for coming year. Bill buys a new car, went to Gay Mont and mentions book named Golden Age of Piracy. Discusses Christmas plans and gifts. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Discusses Belle Hill afairs such as hunting, dogs, and fuel oil as well as of Liz's new teaching job. Includes a typed copy of the History and Life of Thomas Mann Randolph and documentation of Gilchrist from the Clan Macfarlane. Columbia in hospital. Mentions Tides Inn visit to Shirley and Berkely Plantations. Bill still member of American Legion. Visits with family at Gay Mont. Mentions chromolithographs. Mentions Chestertown and Cambridge on the Eastern Shore where he worked. Liz injured herself. Writes of politics. Flower delivery for Frances. Bill giving up farming plans to rent Camden farm to Piedmont Fertilizer. Piedmont affairs. Mentions the weather, flooding and Paul Karsten's health. Writes of people in Florida. Writes of Bill and Buff's relationship and outings. Mentions \"We Began At Jamestown\" and party at Prospect Hill. Talks of high school reunion and John Billingsley's face lift. Mentions visit of Newt Hill and Clara Louise and daughter. Writes of hunting dogs and hunting. Mentions mulitple visits and socials with different persons. Bill is a grandpa and in 69 years old. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Bear sighting at Gay Mont. Mentions Cary, Fritz, and Ashley's travels. Mentions weather. Writes of dinner parties and guests. Plans for 50th high school reunion. Mentions photographs of John Eager's medal. Bill member of 32nd degree in Scottish RIte of Masonry in Richmond, initiated into Shriners. Includes copy of parole document from National Archives from Headquarters Department of Virginia 1865 William Howard as prisoner of war 4th Virginia Calvary, permission to go home to Maryland. Bill to be grandpa in May. Mentions multiple wedding anniversaries, weddings, and events of friends. Discusses possible oil shortages soon.","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Information on Cary, Fritz, and family. Writes about social visits from various family members. Bear sightings at Gay Mont. Writes of Washington D.C. and traffic issues as well as archival work. Includes copies: Philip L. Robb, William R. Bernard of Co.B 9th Virginia Calvary, (Johnson's Regiment). Mentions Ellen and Jim as well as Columbia's health improving. Writes of Tom's auto accident at Gay Mont and mentions Brown's Motel in Port Royal. Writes of Joe Holloway's funeral and events. Contains get well cards to Frances. Mentions hunting on his property and deer season. Contains 3 photographs of Ashley and Key. Mentions a brass Randolph paper clip and a New Year party at Propect Hill. Mentions the Hoyt's party and health. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Mentions Belle Hill and farm affairs. Writes of various persons being in the hospital. Mentions two historians from Park Services and a PhD visiting him to talk about Chatham, inquired of pictures, maps, and events. Writes of the geneology of the Virginian Howards and the Maryland Howards as well as an article Cary wrote. Writes of Liz's biopsy. Mentions Ellen's visit and travels. Discusses A.P.V.A. deal and people. Mentions Gay Mont, Mount Zion, a wedding at Vanters, Tappahannock, Mulberry Place, the Eupatorium Incarnatu, Kenmore, Woodlawn, and Bowling Green. Mentions Howard McHenry, Paul Karsten and his family, Frances Patton, the Boddies, Eleanor Iglehart, granddaughter Ashley, Mrs. Briggs, Charles and Madge Marshell, the Holmes, Katherine Yerby, and states that Mary Stevenson and John Billingsly died. Writes often of dogs and some of politics. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of fuel oil and prices. Mentions the weather and writes often of the dogs. Visits of family, Ellen, Liz, Cary, and grandchildren. Writes about historians inquiring about Chatham. Discussess geneological matters. Bill plants 7,00 pines on property-cost sharing-writes of trees. Mentions John and Peg Russell, Mary Coleman, Jim, David Holmes, Thomas and Lawson Waring, Dr. McFarland, Dorothy and Joe Harris, Bob Krick, the Caroline Historical Society, Taylor Turner, Dorothy Peters, Sally Scott Norris, Wallace Yerby, Forrest Dickinson, and Marge Arnold. Plans of going to Europe. Also mentions Napels Florida, St. Asaphs, Bowling Green, Tuckahoe, Belle Hill, Stratford, Camden, Spotsylvania, St. Peters, New Salem Church, Gay Mont, Vanters, and Fredericksburg. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Frances Robb is in the hospital. Writes of weather-mentions hang up dead water snake so rain would come. Writes of dogs and new dog. Mentions gardening and the Rappahannock Valley Garden Club. Writes of many social visits and church services. Mentions Lucille Reilly, John Ballentine, Virginius Dabney's history book, the Yerby's and the Wallace's, Rosalie, Ellen and Columbia, the Quarles, Raplph Robertsons, Alice Turner. Writes of Bowling Green, Wynnewood Pennsylvania, Gay Mont, Port Royal, Goldenvale Creek, Gouldman Dam. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Includes photograph of Lucy Anne Patterson \"Mamseys\" Mother. Mentions the weather. Writes of Ellen and Cary and their plans and travels. Mentions the dogs. Purchase of brick lined stove. Mentions Thanksgiving plans with family. Writes of various social visits and parties. Mentions Bob Hicks, Dorothy Harris, Ralph Fall, the Howards, the Russells and the Carters, Sally Norris Scott, and Rosalie Taylor, as well as Spring Grove, Bowling Green, Gay Mont and Snow Creek, the Crowningshield Building at Kenmore, and the Happy Clam. Writes of Columbus day being celebrated on the 10th not the 12th. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of Frances' dinner party and of the stone from James H. Byran Memorials of Harrisonburg. John A. Weaver is their Fredericksburg representative. Stone brought to Gay Mont-writes of mud and trouble with delivery. Bill's cousin Key died. Frances is in the hospital, plans to return home on her birthday. Liz thanks Fran for sending checks. Mentions settling France's estate. Description of Frances. Liz works at the hospital. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb, Letters of Jim, Meem and Patty. Bill thanks Fran and Bob for presents. Mentions New Year party at the Hoyt's and travels through Castles. Fran treated Jim to lunch, Fran to stay with either Cary or Jim. Letter to Meem and Patty talks about power lines and the APVA. Mentions Joanna Catron the curator at \"Belmont\", Anita Pratt, Madell family and Beverley, Taylor Turner's death, Louis Rollins, Jayne Harding, the Cheesmans, Beverley Pratt, Julian Hudson, the Bowens and Marjorie Strother, Jeff Gilbert, the Erhards. Also mentions the DMA picnic at Berry Plain. Mentions placing flags at grave sites. Writes of wedding plans. Mentions the Bowens making \"Oaken Brow\" into a spinach farm. Mentions Gay Mont, Bridgeville, Ghelarduccis and surrounding street names. Includes a page from a diary, and writes of viewing many photographs. Mentions various names of streets and locations. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Includes\"'calling card, brownley's, Washington, DC, message from Bill\". Index card with names of William Key Howard to sister Frances R.H. Robb, Frances Lightfoot Robb and wife, Elizabeth Crismond Howard. Index card from Elizabeth Crismond Howard to sister in law Frances Robb. Very small postcard from Smith Memorial, Philadelphia to Miss F.R. Howard in Washington DC. Postcard from Bill with photograph of Tsukuba. Postcards from Bill to F.R. Howard, postcard to Mrs. R.G. Robb, all with various images. As well as undated items in Howards-cards and letters folder. (A more detailed description located in folder.)","One 8\" x 10\" black and white photograph of Eugenia van Dyke Robb that was used for a story published by the Baltimore Sun in 1943.","This series contains letters, postcards, photographs, and other material related to the Robb-Bernard family. Most of the material relates to the family of Frances Robb. Some of the correspondents in the letters include Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., Frances Randolph Howard, and other members of the Howard family. Material related to Frances Robb's time at William and Mary is also included.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)","American Chemical Society","American Red Cross","United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization","Bernard Family","Hipkins family","Robb family","Robb-Bernard family","Upton family","Taylor, John, 1753-1824","Tompkins, Sally Louisa, 1833-1916","English French Dutch;Flemish"],"unitid_tesim":["01/Mss. 65 R54","/repositories/2/resources/1928"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Robb-Bernard Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Robb-Bernard Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Robb-Bernard Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Alabama--History--19th century","Canada--Description and travel","Caroline County (Va.)--History--18th century","Caroline County (Va.)--History--19th century","Chandler Court (Williamsburg, Va.)","Germany--History--Allied occupation, 1945-","Maine--Description and travel","Virginia--Genealogy"],"geogname_ssim":["Alabama--History--19th century","Canada--Description and travel","Caroline County (Va.)--History--18th century","Caroline County (Va.)--History--19th century","Chandler Court (Williamsburg, Va.)","Germany--History--Allied occupation, 1945-","Maine--Description and travel","Virginia--Genealogy"],"creator_ssm":["Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"creator_ssim":["Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"creators_ssim":["Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"places_ssim":["Alabama--History--19th century","Canada--Description and travel","Caroline County (Va.)--History--18th century","Caroline County (Va.)--History--19th century","Chandler Court (Williamsburg, Va.)","Germany--History--Allied occupation, 1945-","Maine--Description and travel","Virginia--Genealogy"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The materials in this collection were donated to William \u0026 Mary Special Collections Research Center by Miss Fannie B. Robb of Caroline County, Virginia, James S. Patton, Frances Robb, and Eugenia Robb in various batches between 1940 and 2007.   1940-28D, 1947.28, 1947.33  - Gift of Fannie B. Robb 1983.28 - Gift of William Y.C. White, Jr. 1983.35 - Gift of Madge G. Baya. 1975.18, 1976.02, 1979.18, 1985.41, 1986.32, 1987.42, 1996.58 - Gift of James Samuel Patton 1999.34, 1999.43, 1999.56, 2000.47, 2000.61, 2002.33 - Gift of Eugenia V. Robb 1993.65, 2005.34, 2005.49, 2007.93 - Gift of Frances Robb 2008.78 - Gift of Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 1985.40 - Gift of James S. Patton via Williamsburg Historic Records Association. 2010.353 and 2010.385 are gift of Frances Robb. 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His grandfather was John Hipkins. Bernard inherited \"Rose Hill,\"Caroline County, Va. from his grandfather and renamed it \"Gay Mont\" in honor of his wife Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, the sister of Governor Wyndham Robertson. Bernard's daughter Helen Struan Bernard Robb bought her siblings' interest in \"Gay Mont.\" Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: \u003cextref href=\"http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Robb-Bernard_Family\" title=\"Robb-Bernard Family\"\u003e\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Hipkins Bernard was the son of William Bernard and Fannie Hipkins Bernard. His grandfather was John Hipkins. Bernard inherited \"Rose Hill,\"Caroline County, Va. from his grandfather and renamed it \"Gay Mont\" in honor of his wife Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, the sister of Governor Wyndham Robertson. 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(later renamed \"Gay Mont\") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal documents and letters of John Taylor of Caroline. Of special interest are the diaries of Eugenia D. Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Germany and Japan during and after World War II (1999.56A).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Additions include other material on the Robb, Bernard, Upton and Hipkins families from the 19th century through the 20th century.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Check the Finding Aid/Inventory and the PDF Inventory for descriptions and/or folder lists of original accession and all additions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal Accession.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD. Wilkie, Kensington [London], to James Wilson Croker. Accepts membership in club and returns list as reqested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information about the Robb-Bernard Family Papers and information about the Robb-Bernard family. Also includes various items within the Robb-Bernard Family Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Family of William \u0026amp; Elizabeth Bolling Robertson by James Samuel Patton - printed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Family of William Robertson and his wife Elizabeth Bolling\" - mimeographed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of Bible Records: 1. William and Elizabeth Bolling Robertson 2. Philip and Mary Warner Lewis Lightfoot 3. James and Lucy Waring Robb\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard's Commission as Captain in the Virginia militia, May 20, 1815\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrayer by [John H. Bernard], [circa 1855], copied by [Helen S. Bernard]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"John Hipkins, Merchant, Of Port Royal, Virginia\" - typed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal papers relating to the settlement of the estate of John Hipkins.  Inventories, law suits, and accounts between Elizabeth Hipkins, John H. Bernard, and others and William Bernard, Executor.  1 October 1801 - 20 November 1816.  (21 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 13 items of Elizabeth Hipkins; 3 items of John Hipkins; and 11 items of John H. Bernard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed inventories, accounts, and legacies of Elizabeth Hipkins' estate. March 13, 1804 - November 23, 1829. (13 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Hipkins' documents [?]. October 1802 - August 14, 1804. (3 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard indenture. July 10, 1804. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard documents regarding the tract of land in Richmond County called \"Folly.\" April 3, 1818 - 1827[?]. (4 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard indentures regarding [Townfield] land in Caroline County, near Port Royal. July 3, 1818 and January 1, 1819. (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard and others indentures, lands in Caroline County, November 14, 1816; May2, 1817 \"Westerton\"; May 26, 1819 Port Royal; and June 15, 1831 Port Royal. (4 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Hipkins' mortgage book.  23 July 1808 - June 1830.  (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger - accounts. First half of 1800s. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes legal papers of William Bernard and John H. Bernard's notes, bills, receipts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the notes, bills, receipts, accounts, and statements of John H. Bernard.  Also, the legal paper, receipts, and bills of William Bernard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills, receipts, accounts, statements. January 9, 1812 - May 2, 1818. (115 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Bernard legal papers - receipts and bills. February 17, 181[3] - November 12, 1853. (18 items). (For more letters of William Bernard see business correspondence of John H. Bernard).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1818. (50 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1819. (86 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1820 (44 items); 1821 (17 items); 1822 (8 items); 1823 (15 items); 1824 (58 items); 1825 (52 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1826 (39 items); 1827 (24 items); 1828 (34 items); 1829 (48 items); 1830 (88 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.  1831 (72 items); 1832 (83 items); 1833 (81 items).  Gay Bernard accounts, 1832-1836 (5 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1834 (62 items); 1835 (32 items); 1836 (39 items); 1837 (52 items); 1838 (74 items); 1839 (36 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1840 (9 items); 1841 (42 items); 1842 (53 items); 1843 (16 items); 1844 (14 items); 1845 (50 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1846 (45 items); 1847 (43 items); 1848 (29 items); 1849 (40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1850 (27 items); 1851 (54 items); 1852 including Arkansas land taxes (55 items); 1853 (59 items); 1854 (48 items); 1855 (22 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard and William R. Bernard bills, receipts and notes, etc. 1855-1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts with William S. Quisenberry. 1831-1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts with James Jackson. 1854 and 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts with William Farinholt. 1836-1839.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts with William R. Care. 1834-1840.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts, bills and receipts with William Gray and Company, Port Royal, Virginia. 1811-1839.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard Alabama Plantation Accounts. 1837-1852. Green County, Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.. Dates unknown. (121 itmes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard's receipt of the return of a runaway slave. March 15, 1834. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the will and bank books of John H. Bernard; legacies of Jane Gay Bernard; a copy of Robert G. Robb's will; and 1 document of Helen S. Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard bank books. 1839-1845. (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard's will. 1841.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJane Gay Bernard legacies. Unsigned, undated. [She died July 1852].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of Robert G. Robb's will, December 13, 1852, and a statement to its validity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument of Helen S. Robb, October 5, 1881, directing that her husband, Philip L. Robb, shall manage her property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous papers, 1800-1830.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard. 624 Checks. April 3, 1816 - November 20, 1854.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard and Family - scraps, visiting cards, envelopes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items of Helen S. Robb and 1 pencil sketch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHelen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) Confederate bonds. (3 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHelen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) settlements, accounts, bills and envelopes. 1859-1898. (10 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePencil sketch. Dated 18 May [?]. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notebook of Helen S. Robb and diary of Helen Struan Bernard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHelen S. Robb notebook containing accounts, receipts, poetry, etc. Late 19th century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnbound diary of Helen Struan Bernard [Mrs. P.L. Robb], 1848-1862.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes publications, extracts from publications, a report card, advertisments, and a photograph of the tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExtracts from papers and magazines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 1, number 1, Southern Temperance Star, with account of October 1834 meeting of the Virginia State Temperance Society, January 1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaldie's Select Circulating Library, including Part I, number 1, 1 January 1835.  8 different issues, 1835 and 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGodey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Volume XCVIII, Number 586, Philadelphia, April 1879.  1 copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Glance At Current American History by an Ex-Confederate, 1897.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExtracts from daily papers. Advertising matter. Undated and September 15, 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport card from B.B. Minor's school for young ladies for Helen S. Bernard dated for Quarter ending 31 October 1850. School regulations and costs are on the reverse side dated 23 September 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadsides, \"Fenton's Patent Flint Enamel Ware,\" Patent secured November 27, 1849. 2 copies. Also, \"Prospect House and Terrace Garden, Table Rock, Canada West.\" undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePamphlet, \"Parcel Post Information.\" undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvertisements for carriages sent to Helen S. Robb, Port Royal, Virginia, May 25, 1899, from George Gravatt, Carriage Manufacturer, Federicksburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrative materials. (4 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete publication. Chapter II and III: \"Latitude, Longitude, and Time\" and \"The Moon\", also \"The Solar System.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMagazine photograph of Gay Mount, about 1920.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs, great grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. Among other names on the tombstone is that of Wyndham Robertson, Governor of Virginia. (Photograph is mounted and is torn in half).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript poems. This group of papers consists of original poems [\"poetical, political prophetical effusions\"] by Jane Gay Bernard. Some responses from her friends are also included. Predominantly undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnbound manuscript diary. This group of papers consists of sporadic entries in a diary of Jane Gay Robertson [wife of John Hipkins Bernard] through the years 1825-1849.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1665-1814.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1736-1805.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes bills of sale, documents, letters, a bond, and an unidentified manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of sale of slaves. 1816-1849.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments and letters regarding land. 1715-1819.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond. 1826.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes indentures and a note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndentures. 1787 and 1801.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote. 1792.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes indentures, certificates, deeds, terms of agreement, and surveys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndentures. 1756-1810.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates. 1804.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeeds. 1743-1805.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerms of agreement. 1810.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurveys. 1741-1796.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Taylor of Caroline County. Documents and correspondence. 1800-1824. (Materals regarding John H. Bernard and John Hipkins).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhilip Lightfoot notes, accounts, receipts, etc. 1810-1837. (19 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes and receipts of Robert G. Robb and repayment of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert G. Robb notes and receipts. 1841-1842. (5 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepayment in 1924 of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller; a proclamation by R[obert] E. Lee; and Confederate secret signals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller, September 2, 1806. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProclamation to People of Maryland by R[obert] E. Lee. 1863. Copy. 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Bernard's academy, May 13, 1841. Letters to and from John H. Bernard, his agents, lawyers, overseers, primarily relating to his Alabama, Arkansas, and Texan lands, 1837-1841.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. March 1, 1842 - November 20, 1843. Including: Letters to and from John H. Bernard regarding his Arkansas, Alabama, and Texan lands, 1842-1843. Printed copy of John C. Calhoun's senate speech on the treaty of Washington, August 1842.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence March 9, 1844 - December 28, 1849. Including: Inventory of slaves, stock, tools, and acres planted on Bernard's Greene County, Alabama plantation, March 18, 1844. Letter commenting on migration from Arkansas to Texas, California, and Mexico, January 17, 1845. Letter from General Leslie Combs of Kentucky, November 12, 1845. J.H. Bernard's letter of advice to his son in college, February 15, 1846. Letter on religion and the way to salvation, September 27, 1846. Letter on social life, theatre, balls, weddings in Richmond, March 1847. Broadside of Fredericksburg Female Seminary, August 6, 1849.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. 1850 - October 20, 1861. Including: Letter, January 20, 1851, regarding burning of St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans at time of Jenny Lind's visit. Trip to Vicksburg and up the Yazoo River to new plantation, reception, and life on the plantation from G.F.W., December 13, 1860. Letter from G.F.W. on national crisis, secession, and plantation plans, January 21, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. June 18, 1862 - December 2, 1870. Including: Family letters to and from the Robbs at Gay Mont and their relatives and friends, January 1863.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. February 9, 1871 - March 29, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. April 4, 1887 - December 22, 1889. Including: Family letters to and from friends in Washington, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, April 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. January 4, 1890 - June 30, 1893. Including: Letter from A.H.A. Bernard on family genealogy, dining with Thomas Jefferson, and tutoring James Monrow, January 1891. Letter on exams at [Virginia Polytechnic Institute], February 1, 1891. Letters from \"Robin\" Robert G. Robb at William and Mary, December 3, 1891; January 8, 1892; April 17, 1892; November 20, 1892; December 11, 1892; March 20, 1893; March 26, 1893; May 10, 1893; May 28, 1893; and June 4, 1893. Letter to Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, January 9, 1892. Letter on commencement at Brown University and travel in New England, June 30, 1893.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. July 10, 1893 - February 1897. Including: Robert G. Robb letters from the University of Virginia, September 19, 1893; February 14, 1894; April 15, 1894; April 22, 1894; May 6, 1894; October 3, 1894; October 7, 1894; October 28, 1894; November 4, 1894; November 18, 1894; November 25, 1894; January 13, 1895; February 10, 1895; October 1895; October 20, 1895; October 27, 1895; January 26, 1896; January 24, 1897.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. July 1897 - September 11, 1901. Including: Letters regarding Robert G. Robb's appointment to the chair of Mathematics in the Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama, July and August 1891. Letter of Robert G. Robb at the University of Virginia, July 22, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, publications, bills, receipts, etc. September 17, 1907 - May 18, 1936 and undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoose envelopes and cards\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 empty portfolios\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of William Robb Bernard, 1870-1875. Jane Gay Robertson, 1812 memo book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eXerox copy of typescript of letters in the form of a journal. John Hipkins Bernard's European Journey, 1818-1819 with Powhatan Robertson's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVols. 3 and 4 of Powhatan Robertson's European tour, 1818-1819. Manuscript diaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of transcribed letters written by Bernard Robb to his family in \"Gay Mont\" Virginia while he was a student at the College of William and Mary. Two 1893 letters from his mother, Helen S. Bernard Robb, to her son, Robert G. Robb. WHRA. 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection is mainly comprised of correspondence from the various Robbs and Bernards, as well as their relations the Uptons, who were originally from southern Maine. As well as the correspondence, there are also a few other items, such as Frances Upton's journal from a family trip to Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, between July 4 and August 9, 1928. Other items of interest are letters from a Netherlands woman named Mary to Frances Upton immediately following World War II (1945-1955,) along with letters home from Robert Upton during World War II\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwentieth-century Robb and Upton (maiden name of Mrs. Patton) family papers. List of dates of correspondence and names of correspondants filed at beginning of box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters of Sally Tompkins to Helen Robb, ca. 1878, and Dr. Martin Pickett Scott to his wife, 12 April 1879. 1878-1879.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotebook of reminscences by Frances Robb's father, former professor of Chemistry, concerning Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters to Frances Robb (Mrs. Robert G. Robb) in 1943 and 1951; one letter to Gay Robertson from Powhatan Robertson dated April 27, 1876 and one letter from Frances Robb to Mrs. Geratt, about 1920. 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary and letters of Eugenia Robb from occupied Japan while Eugenia Robb was serving with the American Red Cross. Typescripts. Also a few letters from Italy. Detailed informative letters and diary. Original to come by bequest. 1945-47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written home by Eugenia van Dyke Robb defining her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan with the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescripts of autograph letters signed. (Originals of 36 letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 4.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters written by Eugenia van Dyke Robb when she was working for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, 1951-1953. Typescripts of autograph letters signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 photographs taken by and of Eugenia van Dyke Robb in the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt.  Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of selected poems of Helen Struan Robb of \"Gay Mont\" aunt of the donor. Poem by donor's father Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive poems by Helen Struan Robb, aunt of Eugenia Robb. The poems are entitled \"Beyond\", \"Absence\", \"To the Wood Robin\", \"Night Song\", and \"Love's Dawn\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo poems by Philip Lightfoot Robb, one entitled \"Sunbeam\" written to his daughter Eugenia Robb and the other entitled \"A Memory, the Homeward Path\" written about his beloved home \"Gaymont.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Moonlight,\" a poem by Eugenia Robb was written in Sendai, Japan in July 1946.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of diary and 5 letters of Eugenia Robb, 1947, during her assignment with the American Red Cross in Stuttgart, Germany. Also, 8 photographs of scenes in Germany. (Originals of six letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 2.) 3 folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries, one scrapbook and letters of Eugenia Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Japan, Philippines, and Germany. Letters from Rome, Italy, 1951-1953. Includes items labeled MsV 1, 2, 3 and 4. 4 folders. 36 original letters from this accession were added to folder 4 of Acc. 1999.34. 6 original letters from this accession were added to folder 2 of Acc. 1999.56A.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items relating to Eugenia Robb's stay in Japan including a map tracing her sea voyage from Washington, D.C. to the Philippine Islands in December, 1945; her article about a well known Japanese flower arranger, the first Japanese brochure published after the war, two poems written by her father, Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.; and one poem written by herself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of principally Philip Lightfoot Robb, 1892-1896, while attending Cleveland High School in Fauquier County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum, 26 October 1932, between R. G. Robb and others to receive heat from the College of William and Mary (includes letter, 1937, and resolutions, 1937, of the Board of Visitors); letter, 14 March 1944, of G. E. Meanley to members of the Fort Magruder Fishing Club; pages from the Bulletin of the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society which contains an article (March 1932, Vol. IX, No. 6) of R. G. Robb \"Development of the Department of Chemistry at the College of William and Mary\" and appointment, 1930, of Robert Gilchrist Robb as Major in the Chemical Warfare Service (reserves). 1 folder. Fort Magruder Fishing Club letter transferred to Acc. 2002.46 Fort Magruder Fishing Club Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEugenia Robb's travel journal to Spain during the summer of 1952 and Philip L. Robb's song \"Tis Cupid wires my Heart to You.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass of June 1948, Baltimore City College, Banquet Program honoring Phillip L. Robb, Teacher and Department Head of Chemistry, 1901-1948, with newspaper clipping concerning his retirement; certificate of distinction awarded to Philip L. Robb, June 7,1893, from Cleveland High School; May 1980 issue of Good Reading, including an article by Eugenia Van Dyke Robb entitled \"Picasso of the Flowers.\" 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarge collection of papers, books and more given by James S. Patton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook about \"Welcum Hinges\" a book written by Bernard Robb. Contains printed articles and reviews. Photograph of portrait of John Hipkins Bernard. Photographs of Sutton Hall and St. Bartholomew's Church. Photograph of John Bernard Robb. Copy of 1857 pages from diary of Helen S. Bernard of \"Gay Mont,\" Caroline County, Virginia. Copies of correspondence of the Robb and Bernard Families from William and Mary Collection, 1857-1874. Copy of newspaper announcement of the marriage of Frederick Smith-Shenstone on February 6, 1873. Correspondence between John Sclater of London with James S. Patton and between East Sussex County Records Office and James S. Patton about Sutton Hall visit and genealogy. 1995. Portion of book written by John Sclater on the Sclater Family. Maps showing Sutton Hall area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGaymont Collection, a gift from APVA. Not yet processed. June 2013 Architectural Digest, p. 150, \"American Revival\" by Julia Reed about the history and restoration of Gay Mont added by staff in 2013. Includes several nineteenth-century cased photographs and early twentieth-century photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam and Mary Senior Honor Thesis, April 2001, \"A Palace Called Beautiful, Virginia Women, The Confederacy and the Transmission of Southern Culture\" by Amanda Elizabeth Creekman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with A. Randolph Howard and the Navy Department about securing a memento of the Battleship Richmond for Mrs. William Augustine Smith who christened the Richmond when she was launched in 1860. Mrs. Smith was Harriett Field Robb, the daughter of Captain Robert Gilchrist Robb, U.S.N. and at that tiime, Commander of the Norfolk, Virginia Navy Yard.  Allen Randolph Howard was married to Frances Lightfoot Smith, the daughter of Mrs. William Augustine Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsist of war ration books for member of the Robb family, as well as Robert J. (Bobby) Robb's Matthew Whaley High School yearbooks, 1948-1950. Yearbooks contain many personalized dedications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor members of the Robb family of Williamsburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBelonging to Robert J. Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBelonging to Robert J. Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBelonging to Robert J. Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph, ca. 1904, of a painting of Frances Randolph (Howard) Robb (b. 1894) at the age of 10. 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are war ration books for the Robb family, an information sheet concerning registration for war ration books, as well as a tag for a shipment from Scotland imprinted with a Williamsburg business name: \"Cogar, Lewis and Geiger, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.\" 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrimarily letters, 1944-1964, written by Earl Gregg Swem to Robert Robb and Frances Robb.  Also contains clippings related to Earl Gregg Swem, a card from John Stewart Bryan, and an invitation to dinner from John Stewart Bryan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters, 1892, from Robert Gilchrist Robb to his mother and to Bernard Robb. There are also programs, 1944, from Bruton Parish Church.  1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1939-1945, from Robert Hunt Land, College of William and Mary librarian, to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb. Land primarily wrote these letters while on the USS Brooklyn during World War II.  3 folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters, 1949-1952, written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb to her son, Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., while he was serving in the Army.  3 folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters addressed to members of the Robb family. Includes one letter, 1944 from a religious organization in Alaska, addressed to Robert Gilchrist Robb, to which the Robb family seemed to donate. There is also a Christmas card, 1992, addressed to Frances Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the baptismal record and accompanying letter from W.A.R. Goodwin of Frances Robb, a map of Cheatham Annex, a note written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb, and a booklet published by John Garland Pollard entitled \"A Connotary: Definitions not Found in Dictionaries.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, and other material relating to the Robb and Bernard Families. The bulk of the accession consists of photographs and scrapbooks of family members, reunions, and family visits. Also included in the collection are Bruton Parish Church newsletters, material related to the Nicolas Mortiau Descendants Association; and travel diaries of Frances Robb during the 1920s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluds letters written to Robert Gilchrist Robb by residents of Williamsburg, including Janet Kimbrough, and material relating to the portrait of Robert Gilchrist Robb which hangs in the Special Collections Research Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Robert Hunt Land to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb, while Land was serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragments of three letters written in the same hand, perhaps by someone with the first or last name \"Randolph.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a diary of Frances Randolph Howard, letters of Robert Gilchrist Robb, and letters of J. Patton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters to Frances Randolph Howard from various family members including William Key Howard, Carrie Stuart Davis, Frances Upton, and Nina Stuart Smith; photographs of William Taylor Smith and Clara Haxall Randolph; and the roll book of Robert Gilchrist Robb while a chemistry professor at William and Mary from 1944 to 1945.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by William Key Howard to his sister Frances R. Howard. In the earliest letters William mentions school and alludes to his outdoor hobbies: buying fishing tackle and shotgun shells. The later letters were written from old family estate known as Gay Mont, in Rappahannock Academy, Virginia, which belonged to the Robb-Bernard branch of the family. Letters concering hunting, swimming, and horseback riding summers of 1921 and 1922. Mentions numerous cousins who visted Gay Mont. The final letters were written from Fredericksburg, Virginia where William attended Fredericksburg High School. Contains two postcards to William from his sister Frances.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from January 1923- May 1924 from William to his sister Frances while he attended Fredericksburg High School.  Also writes of getting a job with a liner, participation in military training exercises, as well as of target practice and drill. References to the building of the new armory.  Mentions a trip to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina- one letter written from Ft. Bragg tells sister he is now \"Pvt. W.K. Howard\"-it appears he was in the Army Reserve or the National Guard. Mentions his birthday and being promoted to sergeant.  Writes of football games, his Indian artifact collection, plans to visit Gay Mont and Canning, as well as his travelling by train to Kansas. Folder contains copy of letter from Fredericksburg High School to William's father concerning tuition and course schedule issues.  William also mentions his plans to attend V.P.I.  Photograph to sister of hazing tradition 'Rat Parade'.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances, from V.I.P. which express his dissatisfaction with the school. Feels he is wasting his time at the school, though he enjoys the athletics. His company won inter-company basketball and football championships, he took first place in shot put and second in javelin throwing. Mentions inspection of the school, which is labeled as 8th best in country, as well as a large fire near the school. Mentions letters of his guardian and financial advisor Mr. Young. Money from Mr. Young to buy Liberty Bond. He writes of going to see \"The Birth of a Nation.\"  He mentions Black people in the theater were clapping when the character Lynch  was carried through the street on the shoulders of celebrating Black people.  He writes that \"they had K.Ks. up in the gallery to keep the colored people quite [sic].\" William works on a ship as deck boy. Mentions going to see \"The Birth of a Nation\". Contains a letter from the Davey Tree Expert Company dated October 16, 1925 accepting William's acceptance into their tree surgeon program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Howard. Writes of his training with Davey Tree Expert Company in Kent, Ohio. Mentions learning knots and how to work with the ropes.  Sent to Pennsylvania for paid field work, as well as Maryland.  Worries about keeping this job for the long term. Considers selling his Virginia Excelsior Company stock- thinks he and sister will get $6,000 each. Mentions Mr. Young his guardian (perhaps the same person as Mr. Edgar M. Young president of the Virginia Excelsior Company) William's father is connected with this company. Sister is getting married to Robert Gilchrist Robb in June.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Robb (nee Howard). William is working temporarily as crew member on a ship-sails to Antwerp and Rotterdam.  Returns and resumes job with Davey Tree Expert Company.  Works near Baltimore Maryland.  Mentions lay offs by \"Ford\". Leaves job at Davey Tree Expert Company in September and works for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Corporation. Longs for the sea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William writes of having \"sent that lock of Boothe's [sic] hair that Grandma had to the Confederate Museum in Richmond.\" Mentions marital problems between his father and his second wife (Amy Margaret), she might move back to Texas. Mentions Frances and husband Robert Gilchrist Robb moving into the Paradise (Ludwell-Paradise) House on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. Longs for the sea, Frances worries about him when he sails. Desires to work on a ship through the Shipping Board. Some letters written while at sea on the SS Eastern Dawn which sailed to Europe including Antwerp. Contains photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William spends winter months working on steamships sailing for Europe, ports including Copenhagan and Finland.  Inquires if there is work for tree surgeons in the restoration of Williamsburg- later says doesn't think Williamsburg,and contracting company Underwood, can afford him. Mentions time spent at Fall Hill, and friend Fred Robinson. Many Letters written from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania where he is doing tree work. Mentions joining the Virginia National Guard-training at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Writes of opprotunity to partly own a gold mine with his friend Lynn-mine is located in Honduras. William and friend Robbie contemplate going there. Novmeber 3, he mentions stock market and the crash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions getting a job as a watchman at Kenmore (the one time home of George Washington's sister) which is being renovated.  Estate once belonged to William's grandfather William Key Howard Sr. as well as his Uncle Willam Key Howard Jr. He must keep watch at night- so he sleeps there.  Mentions cousin John Randolph died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of moving to Belle Hill, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Works for the National Park Service, specifically as park superintendant of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Includes Newspaper clippings and announcement of his marriage to Elizabeth Burke Crismond on March 18, 1937. Father dies, mentions funeral-he is executor of father's estate-details. Mentions housewarming for new home at the park for Branch Spalding (coordinating superintendent for Virginia Civil War parks).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions a war and a trip to the Baltic including stops at \"Danzig, Helsingford [sic] and Murmansk\". Mentions attending a fire training school and refers to a serious problem with Bob's (Robert Gilchrist Robb) eye.  Writes about his being discharged from the Virginia National Guard (?). Mentions plans for new job.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes he has volunteered for the Army, mentions that wife, Liz and their two daughters, will live in Spotsylvania Court House while he is away. Mentions renting his Belle Hill home to a soldier, and wants to rent the large house too. Mentions Army induction at Bowling Green and then moves to Camp Lee. He is stationed at Salem Airbase in Oregon for training. Mentions training experiences and his \"expert\" marksmanship. Believes he will be stationed behind the lines in war. Reassigned to \"Ono siding\" near San Bernardino, California. Describes location and his job there. Mentions plans to visit Los Angeles and Mexico, as well as visiting Hollywood where they made \"The Birth of a Nation\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes the he is applying for \"agriculturalist discharge\", his Belle Hill farm is no longer being cared for due to labor shortages, his request is denied.  Mentions concern for Robert Gilchrist Robb who recently fainted and requires bed rest.  Mentions the weather of San Bernardino.  Mentions his furlough being cancelled many times, wants to visit family in Virginia for Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of 700 Italian prisoners coming to a camp near San Bernardino, California, and their housing. Writes of camp life, mentions government-produced films being shown to the men. Mentions the weather of San Bernardino. References family in Virginia and responds to news from Frances, mentions his neice and her accomplishments. Included is a letter to William from Frances which mentions that her daughter will be attending Sweet Briar College. William mentions doings of other men like working at \"Kaisers steel mills\". Mentions his working extra hours for extra money for his upcoming furlough, received the good conduct metal which he finds ironic because he often breaks the rules. Includes pictures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of his quartermaster in San Bernardino, California being disbanded and of his transfer to Ft. Lewis near Seatle, Washington, expects to be assigned to medical duty. At Ft. Lewis he must go through basic training again and eight weeks of technical training. Describes his training experiences including a film entitled \"The Colored Soldier\", discusses race and the military. Anticipates his furlough at the end of training. Mentions many AWOLs and unit break ups- so the Army increased furloughs to raise moral. Mentions camp life at Ft. Lewis and his plans to visit Tokoma and Seattle, he prefers Seattle. Responds to news about his family and friends back home, mentions Robert Robb's illness many times, Robb had a blood clot and was bedridden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions Robert Robb's upcoming retirement from William and Mary at the end of the 1945-1946 school year.  William began working at Quantico in 1945, received his terminal leave pay in December 1947. Alludes to nephew (Robert Robb Jr.) joining the Army. Mentions attending the dedication of a Stuart tablet at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in King George County, Virginia. Writes of visits to Gay Mont and of planting rye at Belle Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb, mostly news about activities, health, and location of family members both immediate and distant. Mentions wife Liz being in Jamestown for Queen Elizabeth's visit. Gay Mont sold in 1958. Writes that he moved furniture and personal property: paintings (one by Sully sent to Frances). Appears upset about sale of Gay Mont. A 1958 map of Gay Mont included and hints that Pattons might buy Gay Mont soon. A few letters to Frances Robb from both William and his wife which mention France's daughter Fran having surgery twice. William works for the fire department at Quantico as well as at his farm Belle Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions helping clean up debris left by the fire at Gay Mont, alludes to the Pattons' intention to restore the house.  Mentions his daughters, Ellen and Cary, attending Mary Washington College, Ellen also spent some time at William and Mary.  Mentions having portraits restored one of Ellen and one of Alice.  Comments on the inauguration of John F. Kennedy which he viewed on television.  References situation in Berlin and advises sister to buy extra food each week to build a supply.  William has been copying Uncle William's Civil War diary which mentions the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg which he was able to avoid. Includes a copy of an article \"The Valleys of Virginia- The Rappahannock\" published in 1859- mentions Port Royal, Gay Mont, and slave working conditions in the region. Folder also includes a captioned photograph from a newsletter (?) commemorating William K. Howard's thirty years of services as a firefighter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions daughters Ellen and Cary were home for Christmas, going to Washington D.C. to visit Amy. Mamie had Christmas dinner with the Howards, Mamie injured herself after Christmas. Letter from Liz Howard to Frances about Christams, mentions John Glenn's flight on television and Bill's truck problems. Mentions snow storm of 15 inches and loss of power for 32 hours. Bill and Liz celebrated 25th wedding aniversary April 1962. Discusses school plans as well as work and summer plans for Cary and Ellen. Eugenia may have had a stroke 1962. Mentions a midnight Christmas service at St. George. Amy fell down stairs and broke her pelvis. Saw the Mona Lisa in Washington D.C. Mentions the marriage of Mr. Brigham to a Spencer from Williamsburg. Mentions that Jim will be out of the service in 1963. Writes of farm and animal life. Liz receives Mama's diamond. Mentions Belle Hill's estate price. Discusses Amy's will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, cards, and newspaper clippings to Frances Robb (Mrs. R.G. Robb). Bill retired his daughter Cary moved to Fairfax. Mentions Ellen and Cary's affairs. Cary and Ellen drive to Lake Tahoe. Ford Motor Company is interested in Freedom Hill. Bill and Liz celebrate their 29th anniversary. Mentions some purchases from Miller and Rhoads. Cary goes to Athens, Georgia mentions KKK trials. Mentions Bill and Lem Houston's march on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bill in court as witness about over assesment. William dies February 10, 1898. Manzie dies October 20, 1913- letters from Hollywood grave stones. Thank-you note from Liz. Mentions a trip to Montross. Thank-you letter for tulips. Mentions a 50 cent pieces Bobby is saving and plans of Ellen and Patti's trip to Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and cards from Bill and Liz to sister Frances Robb. Mentions affairs of Mamie, her moving, the sale of her house to Bill, her health, and estate. Writes of Clara and her health, operation, and later her death. Affairs of Cary and Ellen, schooling, travels, and their weddings. Writes on politics and the meeting of the Eight District of Legion. Mentions some dental problems, and that Olive Swanson from LaVere died. Also mentions Olive's sisters Blanche and Lousie Cassell and also mentions a geneology booklet about the Tuckahoe Randolphs being recently acquired. Writes of visiting Tuckahoe and Richmond with Buff and Sally. Nora is in hospital. Mincie Polock died and Bill died. Liz and Dorothy Harris visit Prince William, Manassas. Mentions a painting by Sully in Governor's Mansion. Bill elected to be Key Man for coming year. Bill buys a new car, went to Gay Mont and mentions book named Golden Age of Piracy. Discusses Christmas plans and gifts. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Discusses Belle Hill afairs such as hunting, dogs, and fuel oil as well as of Liz's new teaching job. Includes a typed copy of the History and Life of Thomas Mann Randolph and documentation of Gilchrist from the Clan Macfarlane. Columbia in hospital. Mentions Tides Inn visit to Shirley and Berkely Plantations. Bill still member of American Legion. Visits with family at Gay Mont. Mentions chromolithographs. Mentions Chestertown and Cambridge on the Eastern Shore where he worked. Liz injured herself. Writes of politics. Flower delivery for Frances. Bill giving up farming plans to rent Camden farm to Piedmont Fertilizer. Piedmont affairs. Mentions the weather, flooding and Paul Karsten's health. Writes of people in Florida. Writes of Bill and Buff's relationship and outings. Mentions \"We Began At Jamestown\" and party at Prospect Hill. Talks of high school reunion and John Billingsley's face lift. Mentions visit of Newt Hill and Clara Louise and daughter. Writes of hunting dogs and hunting. Mentions mulitple visits and socials with different persons. Bill is a grandpa and in 69 years old. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Bear sighting at Gay Mont. Mentions Cary, Fritz, and Ashley's travels. Mentions weather. Writes of dinner parties and guests. Plans for 50th high school reunion. Mentions photographs of John Eager's medal. Bill member of 32nd degree in Scottish RIte of Masonry in Richmond, initiated into Shriners. Includes copy of parole document from National Archives from Headquarters Department of Virginia 1865 William Howard as prisoner of war 4th Virginia Calvary, permission to go home to Maryland. Bill to be grandpa in May. Mentions multiple wedding anniversaries, weddings, and events of friends. Discusses possible oil shortages soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Information on Cary, Fritz, and family. Writes about social visits from various family members. Bear sightings at Gay Mont. Writes of Washington D.C. and traffic issues as well as archival work. Includes copies: Philip L. Robb, William R. Bernard of Co.B 9th Virginia Calvary, (Johnson's Regiment). Mentions Ellen and Jim as well as Columbia's health improving. Writes of Tom's auto accident at Gay Mont and mentions Brown's Motel in Port Royal. Writes of Joe Holloway's funeral and events. Contains get well cards to Frances. Mentions hunting on his property and deer season. Contains 3 photographs of Ashley and Key. Mentions a brass Randolph paper clip and a New Year party at Propect Hill. Mentions the Hoyt's party and health. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Mentions Belle Hill and farm affairs. Writes of various persons being in the hospital. Mentions two historians from Park Services and a PhD visiting him to talk about Chatham, inquired of pictures, maps, and events. Writes of the geneology of the Virginian Howards and the Maryland Howards as well as an article Cary wrote. Writes of Liz's biopsy. Mentions Ellen's visit and travels. Discusses A.P.V.A. deal and people. Mentions Gay Mont, Mount Zion, a wedding at Vanters, Tappahannock, Mulberry Place, the Eupatorium Incarnatu, Kenmore, Woodlawn, and Bowling Green. Mentions Howard McHenry, Paul Karsten and his family, Frances Patton, the Boddies, Eleanor Iglehart, granddaughter Ashley, Mrs. Briggs, Charles and Madge Marshell, the Holmes, Katherine Yerby, and states that Mary Stevenson and John Billingsly died. Writes often of dogs and some of politics. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of fuel oil and prices. Mentions the weather and writes often of the dogs. Visits of family, Ellen, Liz, Cary, and grandchildren. Writes about historians inquiring about Chatham. Discussess geneological matters. Bill plants 7,00 pines on property-cost sharing-writes of trees. Mentions John and Peg Russell, Mary Coleman, Jim, David Holmes, Thomas and Lawson Waring, Dr. McFarland, Dorothy and Joe Harris, Bob Krick, the Caroline Historical Society, Taylor Turner, Dorothy Peters, Sally Scott Norris, Wallace Yerby, Forrest Dickinson, and Marge Arnold. Plans of going to Europe. Also mentions Napels Florida, St. Asaphs, Bowling Green, Tuckahoe, Belle Hill, Stratford, Camden, Spotsylvania, St. Peters, New Salem Church, Gay Mont, Vanters, and Fredericksburg. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Frances Robb is in the hospital. Writes of weather-mentions hang up dead water snake so rain would come. Writes of dogs and new dog. Mentions gardening and the Rappahannock Valley Garden Club. Writes of many social visits and church services. Mentions Lucille Reilly, John Ballentine, Virginius Dabney's history book, the Yerby's and the Wallace's, Rosalie, Ellen and Columbia, the Quarles, Raplph Robertsons, Alice Turner. Writes of Bowling Green, Wynnewood Pennsylvania, Gay Mont, Port Royal, Goldenvale Creek, Gouldman Dam. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Includes photograph of Lucy Anne Patterson \"Mamseys\" Mother. Mentions the weather. Writes of Ellen and Cary and their plans and travels. Mentions the dogs. Purchase of brick lined stove. Mentions Thanksgiving plans with family. Writes of various social visits and parties. Mentions Bob Hicks, Dorothy Harris, Ralph Fall, the Howards, the Russells and the Carters, Sally Norris Scott, and Rosalie Taylor, as well as Spring Grove, Bowling Green, Gay Mont and Snow Creek, the Crowningshield Building at Kenmore, and the Happy Clam. Writes of Columbus day being celebrated on the 10th not the 12th. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of Frances' dinner party and of the stone from James H. Byran Memorials of Harrisonburg. John A. Weaver is their Fredericksburg representative. Stone brought to Gay Mont-writes of mud and trouble with delivery. Bill's cousin Key died. Frances is in the hospital, plans to return home on her birthday. Liz thanks Fran for sending checks. Mentions settling France's estate. Description of Frances. Liz works at the hospital. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb, Letters of Jim, Meem and Patty. Bill thanks Fran and Bob for presents. Mentions New Year party at the Hoyt's and travels through Castles. Fran treated Jim to lunch, Fran to stay with either Cary or Jim. Letter to Meem and Patty talks about power lines and the APVA. Mentions Joanna Catron the curator at \"Belmont\", Anita Pratt, Madell family and Beverley, Taylor Turner's death, Louis Rollins, Jayne Harding, the Cheesmans, Beverley Pratt, Julian Hudson, the Bowens and Marjorie Strother, Jeff Gilbert, the Erhards. Also mentions the DMA picnic at Berry Plain. Mentions placing flags at grave sites. Writes of wedding plans. Mentions the Bowens making \"Oaken Brow\" into a spinach farm. Mentions Gay Mont, Bridgeville, Ghelarduccis and surrounding street names. Includes a page from a diary, and writes of viewing many photographs. Mentions various names of streets and locations. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes\"'calling card, brownley's, Washington, DC, message from Bill\". Index card with names of William Key Howard to sister Frances R.H. Robb, Frances Lightfoot Robb and wife, Elizabeth Crismond Howard. Index card from Elizabeth Crismond Howard to sister in law Frances Robb. Very small postcard from Smith Memorial, Philadelphia to Miss F.R. Howard in Washington DC. Postcard from Bill with photograph of Tsukuba. Postcards from Bill to F.R. Howard, postcard to Mrs. R.G. Robb, all with various images. As well as undated items in Howards-cards and letters folder. (A more detailed description located in folder.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne 8\" x 10\" black and white photograph of Eugenia van Dyke Robb that was used for a story published by the Baltimore Sun in 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains letters, postcards, photographs, and other material related to the Robb-Bernard family. Most of the material relates to the family of Frances Robb. Some of the correspondents in the letters include Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., Frances Randolph Howard, and other members of the Howard family. 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(later renamed \"Gay Mont\") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal documents and letters of John Taylor of Caroline. Of special interest are the diaries of Eugenia D. Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Germany and Japan during and after World War II (1999.56A)."," Additions include other material on the Robb, Bernard, Upton and Hipkins families from the 19th century through the 20th century."," Check the Finding Aid/Inventory and the PDF Inventory for descriptions and/or folder lists of original accession and all additions.","Original Accession.","D. Wilkie, Kensington [London], to James Wilson Croker. Accepts membership in club and returns list as reqested.","Includes information about the Robb-Bernard Family Papers and information about the Robb-Bernard family. Also includes various items within the Robb-Bernard Family Papers.","The Family of William \u0026 Elizabeth Bolling Robertson by James Samuel Patton - printed","\"The Family of William Robertson and his wife Elizabeth Bolling\" - mimeographed","Copies of Bible Records: 1. William and Elizabeth Bolling Robertson 2. Philip and Mary Warner Lewis Lightfoot 3. James and Lucy Waring Robb","John H. Bernard's Commission as Captain in the Virginia militia, May 20, 1815","Prayer by [John H. Bernard], [circa 1855], copied by [Helen S. Bernard]","\"John Hipkins, Merchant, Of Port Royal, Virginia\" - typed","Legal papers relating to the settlement of the estate of John Hipkins.  Inventories, law suits, and accounts between Elizabeth Hipkins, John H. Bernard, and others and William Bernard, Executor.  1 October 1801 - 20 November 1816.  (21 items)","Includes 13 items of Elizabeth Hipkins; 3 items of John Hipkins; and 11 items of John H. Bernard.","Detailed inventories, accounts, and legacies of Elizabeth Hipkins' estate. March 13, 1804 - November 23, 1829. (13 items).","John Hipkins' documents [?]. October 1802 - August 14, 1804. (3 items).","John H. Bernard indenture. July 10, 1804. (1 item).","John H. Bernard documents regarding the tract of land in Richmond County called \"Folly.\" April 3, 1818 - 1827[?]. (4 items).","John H. Bernard indentures regarding [Townfield] land in Caroline County, near Port Royal. July 3, 1818 and January 1, 1819. (2 items).","John H. Bernard and others indentures, lands in Caroline County, November 14, 1816; May2, 1817 \"Westerton\"; May 26, 1819 Port Royal; and June 15, 1831 Port Royal. (4 items).","Elizabeth Hipkins' mortgage book.  23 July 1808 - June 1830.  (1 item).","Ledger - accounts. First half of 1800s. (1 item).","Includes legal papers of William Bernard and John H. Bernard's notes, bills, receipts, etc.","Includes the notes, bills, receipts, accounts, and statements of John H. Bernard.  Also, the legal paper, receipts, and bills of William Bernard.","John H. Bernard notes, bills, receipts, accounts, statements. January 9, 1812 - May 2, 1818. (115 items).","William Bernard legal papers - receipts and bills. February 17, 181[3] - November 12, 1853. (18 items). (For more letters of William Bernard see business correspondence of John H. Bernard).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1818. (50 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1819. (86 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1820 (44 items); 1821 (17 items); 1822 (8 items); 1823 (15 items); 1824 (58 items); 1825 (52 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1826 (39 items); 1827 (24 items); 1828 (34 items); 1829 (48 items); 1830 (88 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.  1831 (72 items); 1832 (83 items); 1833 (81 items).  Gay Bernard accounts, 1832-1836 (5 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1834 (62 items); 1835 (32 items); 1836 (39 items); 1837 (52 items); 1838 (74 items); 1839 (36 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1840 (9 items); 1841 (42 items); 1842 (53 items); 1843 (16 items); 1844 (14 items); 1845 (50 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1846 (45 items); 1847 (43 items); 1848 (29 items); 1849 (40 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1850 (27 items); 1851 (54 items); 1852 including Arkansas land taxes (55 items); 1853 (59 items); 1854 (48 items); 1855 (22 items).","John H. Bernard and William R. Bernard bills, receipts and notes, etc. 1855-1860.","John H. Bernard accounts with William S. Quisenberry. 1831-1835.","John H. Bernard accounts with James Jackson. 1854 and 1857.","John H. Bernard accounts with William Farinholt. 1836-1839.","John H. Bernard accounts with William R. Care. 1834-1840.","John H. Bernard accounts, bills and receipts with William Gray and Company, Port Royal, Virginia. 1811-1839.","John H. Bernard Alabama Plantation Accounts. 1837-1852. Green County, Alabama.","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.. Dates unknown. (121 itmes).","John H. Bernard's receipt of the return of a runaway slave. March 15, 1834. (1 item).","Includes the will and bank books of John H. Bernard; legacies of Jane Gay Bernard; a copy of Robert G. Robb's will; and 1 document of Helen S. Robb.","John H. Bernard bank books. 1839-1845. (2 items).","John H. Bernard's will. 1841.","Jane Gay Bernard legacies. Unsigned, undated. [She died July 1852].","Copy of Robert G. Robb's will, December 13, 1852, and a statement to its validity.","Document of Helen S. Robb, October 5, 1881, directing that her husband, Philip L. Robb, shall manage her property.","Miscellaneous papers, 1800-1830.","John H. Bernard. 624 Checks. April 3, 1816 - November 20, 1854.","John H. Bernard and Family - scraps, visiting cards, envelopes.","13 items of Helen S. Robb and 1 pencil sketch.","Helen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) Confederate bonds. (3 items).","Helen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) settlements, accounts, bills and envelopes. 1859-1898. (10 items).","Pencil sketch. Dated 18 May [?]. (1 item).","Includes notebook of Helen S. Robb and diary of Helen Struan Bernard.","Helen S. Robb notebook containing accounts, receipts, poetry, etc. Late 19th century.","Unbound diary of Helen Struan Bernard [Mrs. P.L. Robb], 1848-1862.","Includes publications, extracts from publications, a report card, advertisments, and a photograph of the tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs.","Extracts from papers and magazines.","Volume 1, number 1, Southern Temperance Star, with account of October 1834 meeting of the Virginia State Temperance Society, January 1835.","Waldie's Select Circulating Library, including Part I, number 1, 1 January 1835.  8 different issues, 1835 and 1836.","Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Volume XCVIII, Number 586, Philadelphia, April 1879.  1 copy.","A Glance At Current American History by an Ex-Confederate, 1897.","Extracts from daily papers. Advertising matter. Undated and September 15, 1857.","Report card from B.B. Minor's school for young ladies for Helen S. Bernard dated for Quarter ending 31 October 1850. School regulations and costs are on the reverse side dated 23 September 1850.","Broadsides, \"Fenton's Patent Flint Enamel Ware,\" Patent secured November 27, 1849. 2 copies. Also, \"Prospect House and Terrace Garden, Table Rock, Canada West.\" undated.","Pamphlet, \"Parcel Post Information.\" undated.","Advertisements for carriages sent to Helen S. Robb, Port Royal, Virginia, May 25, 1899, from George Gravatt, Carriage Manufacturer, Federicksburg, Virginia.","Illustrative materials. (4 items).","Incomplete publication. Chapter II and III: \"Latitude, Longitude, and Time\" and \"The Moon\", also \"The Solar System.\"","Magazine photograph of Gay Mount, about 1920.","Photograph of tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs, great grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. Among other names on the tombstone is that of Wyndham Robertson, Governor of Virginia. (Photograph is mounted and is torn in half).","Manuscript poems. This group of papers consists of original poems [\"poetical, political prophetical effusions\"] by Jane Gay Bernard. Some responses from her friends are also included. Predominantly undated.","Unbound manuscript diary. This group of papers consists of sporadic entries in a diary of Jane Gay Robertson [wife of John Hipkins Bernard] through the years 1825-1849.","Indentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1665-1814.","Indentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1736-1805.","Includes bills of sale, documents, letters, a bond, and an unidentified manuscript.","Bills of sale of slaves. 1816-1849.","Documents and letters regarding land. 1715-1819.","Bond. 1826.","Unidentified manuscript.","Includes indentures and a note.","Indentures. 1787 and 1801.","Note. 1792.","Includes indentures, certificates, deeds, terms of agreement, and surveys.","Indentures. 1756-1810.","Certificates. 1804.","Deeds. 1743-1805.","Terms of agreement. 1810.","Surveys. 1741-1796.","John Taylor of Caroline County. Documents and correspondence. 1800-1824. (Materals regarding John H. Bernard and John Hipkins).","Philip Lightfoot notes, accounts, receipts, etc. 1810-1837. (19 items).","Includes notes and receipts of Robert G. Robb and repayment of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.","Robert G. Robb notes and receipts. 1841-1842. (5 items).","Repayment in 1924 of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.","Includes a boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller; a proclamation by R[obert] E. Lee; and Confederate secret signals.","Boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller, September 2, 1806. (1 item).","Proclamation to People of Maryland by R[obert] E. Lee. 1863. Copy. (1 item).","Confederate secret signals along the Rappahannock River. [1863?]. (2 items).","Miscellaneous accounts and receipts. 1835-1954. (9 items).","Record Book of the Trustees of Rappahannock Academy. 1810-1822.","Correspondence. March 5, 1791 - August 3, 1836. Including: Letter from Wyndam Robertson, February 25, 1817. Senator W.C. Rives' letter on his senate speech regarding nullification, March 7, 1833. Letter from James Barbour, May 12, 1834. Letter on land speculation, June 8, 1834, and opportunities in Alabama. Letter on land speculation in Arkansas and Louisiana, November 4, 1835. Letter on land speculation in Texas, and predicting defeat of the Mexican army by fall, August 3, 1836.","Correspondence, January 17, 1837 - November 10, 1841. Including: John Bradshaw, Middlebury College graduate, letter applying for teaching position in John H. Bernard's academy, May 13, 1841. Letters to and from John H. Bernard, his agents, lawyers, overseers, primarily relating to his Alabama, Arkansas, and Texan lands, 1837-1841.","Correspondence. March 1, 1842 - November 20, 1843. Including: Letters to and from John H. Bernard regarding his Arkansas, Alabama, and Texan lands, 1842-1843. Printed copy of John C. Calhoun's senate speech on the treaty of Washington, August 1842.","Correspondence March 9, 1844 - December 28, 1849. Including: Inventory of slaves, stock, tools, and acres planted on Bernard's Greene County, Alabama plantation, March 18, 1844. Letter commenting on migration from Arkansas to Texas, California, and Mexico, January 17, 1845. Letter from General Leslie Combs of Kentucky, November 12, 1845. J.H. Bernard's letter of advice to his son in college, February 15, 1846. Letter on religion and the way to salvation, September 27, 1846. Letter on social life, theatre, balls, weddings in Richmond, March 1847. Broadside of Fredericksburg Female Seminary, August 6, 1849.","Correspondence. 1850 - October 20, 1861. Including: Letter, January 20, 1851, regarding burning of St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans at time of Jenny Lind's visit. Trip to Vicksburg and up the Yazoo River to new plantation, reception, and life on the plantation from G.F.W., December 13, 1860. Letter from G.F.W. on national crisis, secession, and plantation plans, January 21, 1861.","Correspondence. June 18, 1862 - December 2, 1870. Including: Family letters to and from the Robbs at Gay Mont and their relatives and friends, January 1863.","Correspondence. February 9, 1871 - March 29, 1887.","Correspondence. April 4, 1887 - December 22, 1889. Including: Family letters to and from friends in Washington, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, April 1887.","Correspondence. January 4, 1890 - June 30, 1893. Including: Letter from A.H.A. Bernard on family genealogy, dining with Thomas Jefferson, and tutoring James Monrow, January 1891. Letter on exams at [Virginia Polytechnic Institute], February 1, 1891. Letters from \"Robin\" Robert G. Robb at William and Mary, December 3, 1891; January 8, 1892; April 17, 1892; November 20, 1892; December 11, 1892; March 20, 1893; March 26, 1893; May 10, 1893; May 28, 1893; and June 4, 1893. Letter to Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, January 9, 1892. Letter on commencement at Brown University and travel in New England, June 30, 1893.","Correspondence. July 10, 1893 - February 1897. Including: Robert G. Robb letters from the University of Virginia, September 19, 1893; February 14, 1894; April 15, 1894; April 22, 1894; May 6, 1894; October 3, 1894; October 7, 1894; October 28, 1894; November 4, 1894; November 18, 1894; November 25, 1894; January 13, 1895; February 10, 1895; October 1895; October 20, 1895; October 27, 1895; January 26, 1896; January 24, 1897.","Correspondence. July 1897 - September 11, 1901. Including: Letters regarding Robert G. Robb's appointment to the chair of Mathematics in the Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama, July and August 1891. Letter of Robert G. Robb at the University of Virginia, July 22, 1900.","Correspondence, publications, bills, receipts, etc. September 17, 1907 - May 18, 1936 and undated.","Loose envelopes and cards","2 empty portfolios","Diary of William Robb Bernard, 1870-1875. Jane Gay Robertson, 1812 memo book.","Xerox copy of typescript of letters in the form of a journal. John Hipkins Bernard's European Journey, 1818-1819 with Powhatan Robertson's.","Vols. 3 and 4 of Powhatan Robertson's European tour, 1818-1819. Manuscript diaries.","Copies of transcribed letters written by Bernard Robb to his family in \"Gay Mont\" Virginia while he was a student at the College of William and Mary. Two 1893 letters from his mother, Helen S. Bernard Robb, to her son, Robert G. Robb. WHRA. 1 folder.","The collection is mainly comprised of correspondence from the various Robbs and Bernards, as well as their relations the Uptons, who were originally from southern Maine. As well as the correspondence, there are also a few other items, such as Frances Upton's journal from a family trip to Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, between July 4 and August 9, 1928. Other items of interest are letters from a Netherlands woman named Mary to Frances Upton immediately following World War II (1945-1955,) along with letters home from Robert Upton during World War II","Twentieth-century Robb and Upton (maiden name of Mrs. Patton) family papers. List of dates of correspondence and names of correspondants filed at beginning of box.","Two letters of Sally Tompkins to Helen Robb, ca. 1878, and Dr. Martin Pickett Scott to his wife, 12 April 1879. 1878-1879.","Notebook of reminscences by Frances Robb's father, former professor of Chemistry, concerning Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. 1 folder.","Three letters to Frances Robb (Mrs. Robert G. Robb) in 1943 and 1951; one letter to Gay Robertson from Powhatan Robertson dated April 27, 1876 and one letter from Frances Robb to Mrs. Geratt, about 1920. 1 folder.","Diary and letters of Eugenia Robb from occupied Japan while Eugenia Robb was serving with the American Red Cross. Typescripts. Also a few letters from Italy. Detailed informative letters and diary. Original to come by bequest. 1945-47.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Letters written home by Eugenia van Dyke Robb defining her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan with the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescripts of autograph letters signed. (Originals of 36 letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 4.)","Three letters written by Eugenia van Dyke Robb when she was working for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, 1951-1953. Typescripts of autograph letters signed.","21 photographs taken by and of Eugenia van Dyke Robb in the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt.  Photographs.","Typescript of selected poems of Helen Struan Robb of \"Gay Mont\" aunt of the donor. Poem by donor's father Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.","Five poems by Helen Struan Robb, aunt of Eugenia Robb. The poems are entitled \"Beyond\", \"Absence\", \"To the Wood Robin\", \"Night Song\", and \"Love's Dawn\".","Two poems by Philip Lightfoot Robb, one entitled \"Sunbeam\" written to his daughter Eugenia Robb and the other entitled \"A Memory, the Homeward Path\" written about his beloved home \"Gaymont.\"","\"Moonlight,\" a poem by Eugenia Robb was written in Sendai, Japan in July 1946.","Typescript of diary and 5 letters of Eugenia Robb, 1947, during her assignment with the American Red Cross in Stuttgart, Germany. Also, 8 photographs of scenes in Germany. (Originals of six letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 2.) 3 folders.","Diaries, one scrapbook and letters of Eugenia Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Japan, Philippines, and Germany. Letters from Rome, Italy, 1951-1953. Includes items labeled MsV 1, 2, 3 and 4. 4 folders. 36 original letters from this accession were added to folder 4 of Acc. 1999.34. 6 original letters from this accession were added to folder 2 of Acc. 1999.56A.","5 items relating to Eugenia Robb's stay in Japan including a map tracing her sea voyage from Washington, D.C. to the Philippine Islands in December, 1945; her article about a well known Japanese flower arranger, the first Japanese brochure published after the war, two poems written by her father, Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.; and one poem written by herself.","Letters of principally Philip Lightfoot Robb, 1892-1896, while attending Cleveland High School in Fauquier County, Virginia.","Memorandum, 26 October 1932, between R. G. Robb and others to receive heat from the College of William and Mary (includes letter, 1937, and resolutions, 1937, of the Board of Visitors); letter, 14 March 1944, of G. E. Meanley to members of the Fort Magruder Fishing Club; pages from the Bulletin of the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society which contains an article (March 1932, Vol. IX, No. 6) of R. G. Robb \"Development of the Department of Chemistry at the College of William and Mary\" and appointment, 1930, of Robert Gilchrist Robb as Major in the Chemical Warfare Service (reserves). 1 folder. Fort Magruder Fishing Club letter transferred to Acc. 2002.46 Fort Magruder Fishing Club Papers.","Eugenia Robb's travel journal to Spain during the summer of 1952 and Philip L. Robb's song \"Tis Cupid wires my Heart to You.\"","Class of June 1948, Baltimore City College, Banquet Program honoring Phillip L. Robb, Teacher and Department Head of Chemistry, 1901-1948, with newspaper clipping concerning his retirement; certificate of distinction awarded to Philip L. Robb, June 7,1893, from Cleveland High School; May 1980 issue of Good Reading, including an article by Eugenia Van Dyke Robb entitled \"Picasso of the Flowers.\" 1 folder.","Large collection of papers, books and more given by James S. Patton.","Scrapbook about \"Welcum Hinges\" a book written by Bernard Robb. Contains printed articles and reviews. Photograph of portrait of John Hipkins Bernard. Photographs of Sutton Hall and St. Bartholomew's Church. Photograph of John Bernard Robb. Copy of 1857 pages from diary of Helen S. Bernard of \"Gay Mont,\" Caroline County, Virginia. Copies of correspondence of the Robb and Bernard Families from William and Mary Collection, 1857-1874. Copy of newspaper announcement of the marriage of Frederick Smith-Shenstone on February 6, 1873. Correspondence between John Sclater of London with James S. Patton and between East Sussex County Records Office and James S. Patton about Sutton Hall visit and genealogy. 1995. Portion of book written by John Sclater on the Sclater Family. Maps showing Sutton Hall area.","Gaymont Collection, a gift from APVA. Not yet processed. June 2013 Architectural Digest, p. 150, \"American Revival\" by Julia Reed about the history and restoration of Gay Mont added by staff in 2013. Includes several nineteenth-century cased photographs and early twentieth-century photographs.","William and Mary Senior Honor Thesis, April 2001, \"A Palace Called Beautiful, Virginia Women, The Confederacy and the Transmission of Southern Culture\" by Amanda Elizabeth Creekman.","Correspondence with A. Randolph Howard and the Navy Department about securing a memento of the Battleship Richmond for Mrs. William Augustine Smith who christened the Richmond when she was launched in 1860. Mrs. Smith was Harriett Field Robb, the daughter of Captain Robert Gilchrist Robb, U.S.N. and at that tiime, Commander of the Norfolk, Virginia Navy Yard.  Allen Randolph Howard was married to Frances Lightfoot Smith, the daughter of Mrs. William Augustine Smith.","Consist of war ration books for member of the Robb family, as well as Robert J. (Bobby) Robb's Matthew Whaley High School yearbooks, 1948-1950. Yearbooks contain many personalized dedications.","For members of the Robb family of Williamsburg, Va.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Photograph, ca. 1904, of a painting of Frances Randolph (Howard) Robb (b. 1894) at the age of 10. 1 folder.","Included are war ration books for the Robb family, an information sheet concerning registration for war ration books, as well as a tag for a shipment from Scotland imprinted with a Williamsburg business name: \"Cogar, Lewis and Geiger, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.\" 1 folder.","Primarily letters, 1944-1964, written by Earl Gregg Swem to Robert Robb and Frances Robb.  Also contains clippings related to Earl Gregg Swem, a card from John Stewart Bryan, and an invitation to dinner from John Stewart Bryan.","Contains letters, 1892, from Robert Gilchrist Robb to his mother and to Bernard Robb. There are also programs, 1944, from Bruton Parish Church.  1 folder.","Letters, 1939-1945, from Robert Hunt Land, College of William and Mary librarian, to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb. Land primarily wrote these letters while on the USS Brooklyn during World War II.  3 folders.","Contains letters, 1949-1952, written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb to her son, Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., while he was serving in the Army.  3 folders.","Letters addressed to members of the Robb family. Includes one letter, 1944 from a religious organization in Alaska, addressed to Robert Gilchrist Robb, to which the Robb family seemed to donate. There is also a Christmas card, 1992, addressed to Frances Robb.","Includes the baptismal record and accompanying letter from W.A.R. Goodwin of Frances Robb, a map of Cheatham Annex, a note written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb, and a booklet published by John Garland Pollard entitled \"A Connotary: Definitions not Found in Dictionaries.\"","Contains photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, and other material relating to the Robb and Bernard Families. The bulk of the accession consists of photographs and scrapbooks of family members, reunions, and family visits. Also included in the collection are Bruton Parish Church newsletters, material related to the Nicolas Mortiau Descendants Association; and travel diaries of Frances Robb during the 1920s.","Includs letters written to Robert Gilchrist Robb by residents of Williamsburg, including Janet Kimbrough, and material relating to the portrait of Robert Gilchrist Robb which hangs in the Special Collections Research Center.","Letters from Robert Hunt Land to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb, while Land was serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II.","Fragments of three letters written in the same hand, perhaps by someone with the first or last name \"Randolph.\"","Includes a diary of Frances Randolph Howard, letters of Robert Gilchrist Robb, and letters of J. Patton.","Contains letters to Frances Randolph Howard from various family members including William Key Howard, Carrie Stuart Davis, Frances Upton, and Nina Stuart Smith; photographs of William Taylor Smith and Clara Haxall Randolph; and the roll book of Robert Gilchrist Robb while a chemistry professor at William and Mary from 1944 to 1945.","Letters written by William Key Howard to his sister Frances R. Howard. In the earliest letters William mentions school and alludes to his outdoor hobbies: buying fishing tackle and shotgun shells. The later letters were written from old family estate known as Gay Mont, in Rappahannock Academy, Virginia, which belonged to the Robb-Bernard branch of the family. Letters concering hunting, swimming, and horseback riding summers of 1921 and 1922. Mentions numerous cousins who visted Gay Mont. The final letters were written from Fredericksburg, Virginia where William attended Fredericksburg High School. Contains two postcards to William from his sister Frances.","Letters from January 1923- May 1924 from William to his sister Frances while he attended Fredericksburg High School.  Also writes of getting a job with a liner, participation in military training exercises, as well as of target practice and drill. References to the building of the new armory.  Mentions a trip to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina- one letter written from Ft. Bragg tells sister he is now \"Pvt. W.K. Howard\"-it appears he was in the Army Reserve or the National Guard. Mentions his birthday and being promoted to sergeant.  Writes of football games, his Indian artifact collection, plans to visit Gay Mont and Canning, as well as his travelling by train to Kansas. Folder contains copy of letter from Fredericksburg High School to William's father concerning tuition and course schedule issues.  William also mentions his plans to attend V.P.I.  Photograph to sister of hazing tradition 'Rat Parade'.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances, from V.I.P. which express his dissatisfaction with the school. Feels he is wasting his time at the school, though he enjoys the athletics. His company won inter-company basketball and football championships, he took first place in shot put and second in javelin throwing. Mentions inspection of the school, which is labeled as 8th best in country, as well as a large fire near the school. Mentions letters of his guardian and financial advisor Mr. Young. Money from Mr. Young to buy Liberty Bond. He writes of going to see \"The Birth of a Nation.\"  He mentions Black people in the theater were clapping when the character Lynch  was carried through the street on the shoulders of celebrating Black people.  He writes that \"they had K.Ks. up in the gallery to keep the colored people quite [sic].\" William works on a ship as deck boy. Mentions going to see \"The Birth of a Nation\". Contains a letter from the Davey Tree Expert Company dated October 16, 1925 accepting William's acceptance into their tree surgeon program.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Howard. Writes of his training with Davey Tree Expert Company in Kent, Ohio. Mentions learning knots and how to work with the ropes.  Sent to Pennsylvania for paid field work, as well as Maryland.  Worries about keeping this job for the long term. Considers selling his Virginia Excelsior Company stock- thinks he and sister will get $6,000 each. Mentions Mr. Young his guardian (perhaps the same person as Mr. Edgar M. Young president of the Virginia Excelsior Company) William's father is connected with this company. Sister is getting married to Robert Gilchrist Robb in June.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Robb (nee Howard). William is working temporarily as crew member on a ship-sails to Antwerp and Rotterdam.  Returns and resumes job with Davey Tree Expert Company.  Works near Baltimore Maryland.  Mentions lay offs by \"Ford\". Leaves job at Davey Tree Expert Company in September and works for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Corporation. Longs for the sea.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William writes of having \"sent that lock of Boothe's [sic] hair that Grandma had to the Confederate Museum in Richmond.\" Mentions marital problems between his father and his second wife (Amy Margaret), she might move back to Texas. Mentions Frances and husband Robert Gilchrist Robb moving into the Paradise (Ludwell-Paradise) House on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. Longs for the sea, Frances worries about him when he sails. Desires to work on a ship through the Shipping Board. Some letters written while at sea on the SS Eastern Dawn which sailed to Europe including Antwerp. Contains photographs.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William spends winter months working on steamships sailing for Europe, ports including Copenhagan and Finland.  Inquires if there is work for tree surgeons in the restoration of Williamsburg- later says doesn't think Williamsburg,and contracting company Underwood, can afford him. Mentions time spent at Fall Hill, and friend Fred Robinson. Many Letters written from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania where he is doing tree work. Mentions joining the Virginia National Guard-training at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Writes of opprotunity to partly own a gold mine with his friend Lynn-mine is located in Honduras. William and friend Robbie contemplate going there. Novmeber 3, he mentions stock market and the crash.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions getting a job as a watchman at Kenmore (the one time home of George Washington's sister) which is being renovated.  Estate once belonged to William's grandfather William Key Howard Sr. as well as his Uncle Willam Key Howard Jr. He must keep watch at night- so he sleeps there.  Mentions cousin John Randolph died.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of moving to Belle Hill, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Works for the National Park Service, specifically as park superintendant of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Includes Newspaper clippings and announcement of his marriage to Elizabeth Burke Crismond on March 18, 1937. Father dies, mentions funeral-he is executor of father's estate-details. Mentions housewarming for new home at the park for Branch Spalding (coordinating superintendent for Virginia Civil War parks).","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions a war and a trip to the Baltic including stops at \"Danzig, Helsingford [sic] and Murmansk\". Mentions attending a fire training school and refers to a serious problem with Bob's (Robert Gilchrist Robb) eye.  Writes about his being discharged from the Virginia National Guard (?). Mentions plans for new job.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes he has volunteered for the Army, mentions that wife, Liz and their two daughters, will live in Spotsylvania Court House while he is away. Mentions renting his Belle Hill home to a soldier, and wants to rent the large house too. Mentions Army induction at Bowling Green and then moves to Camp Lee. He is stationed at Salem Airbase in Oregon for training. Mentions training experiences and his \"expert\" marksmanship. Believes he will be stationed behind the lines in war. Reassigned to \"Ono siding\" near San Bernardino, California. Describes location and his job there. Mentions plans to visit Los Angeles and Mexico, as well as visiting Hollywood where they made \"The Birth of a Nation\".","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes the he is applying for \"agriculturalist discharge\", his Belle Hill farm is no longer being cared for due to labor shortages, his request is denied.  Mentions concern for Robert Gilchrist Robb who recently fainted and requires bed rest.  Mentions the weather of San Bernardino.  Mentions his furlough being cancelled many times, wants to visit family in Virginia for Christmas.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of 700 Italian prisoners coming to a camp near San Bernardino, California, and their housing. Writes of camp life, mentions government-produced films being shown to the men. Mentions the weather of San Bernardino. References family in Virginia and responds to news from Frances, mentions his neice and her accomplishments. Included is a letter to William from Frances which mentions that her daughter will be attending Sweet Briar College. William mentions doings of other men like working at \"Kaisers steel mills\". Mentions his working extra hours for extra money for his upcoming furlough, received the good conduct metal which he finds ironic because he often breaks the rules. Includes pictures.","Letters from William Key Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of his quartermaster in San Bernardino, California being disbanded and of his transfer to Ft. Lewis near Seatle, Washington, expects to be assigned to medical duty. At Ft. Lewis he must go through basic training again and eight weeks of technical training. Describes his training experiences including a film entitled \"The Colored Soldier\", discusses race and the military. Anticipates his furlough at the end of training. Mentions many AWOLs and unit break ups- so the Army increased furloughs to raise moral. Mentions camp life at Ft. Lewis and his plans to visit Tokoma and Seattle, he prefers Seattle. Responds to news about his family and friends back home, mentions Robert Robb's illness many times, Robb had a blood clot and was bedridden.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions Robert Robb's upcoming retirement from William and Mary at the end of the 1945-1946 school year.  William began working at Quantico in 1945, received his terminal leave pay in December 1947. Alludes to nephew (Robert Robb Jr.) joining the Army. Mentions attending the dedication of a Stuart tablet at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in King George County, Virginia. Writes of visits to Gay Mont and of planting rye at Belle Hill.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb, mostly news about activities, health, and location of family members both immediate and distant. Mentions wife Liz being in Jamestown for Queen Elizabeth's visit. Gay Mont sold in 1958. Writes that he moved furniture and personal property: paintings (one by Sully sent to Frances). Appears upset about sale of Gay Mont. A 1958 map of Gay Mont included and hints that Pattons might buy Gay Mont soon. A few letters to Frances Robb from both William and his wife which mention France's daughter Fran having surgery twice. William works for the fire department at Quantico as well as at his farm Belle Hill.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions helping clean up debris left by the fire at Gay Mont, alludes to the Pattons' intention to restore the house.  Mentions his daughters, Ellen and Cary, attending Mary Washington College, Ellen also spent some time at William and Mary.  Mentions having portraits restored one of Ellen and one of Alice.  Comments on the inauguration of John F. Kennedy which he viewed on television.  References situation in Berlin and advises sister to buy extra food each week to build a supply.  William has been copying Uncle William's Civil War diary which mentions the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg which he was able to avoid. Includes a copy of an article \"The Valleys of Virginia- The Rappahannock\" published in 1859- mentions Port Royal, Gay Mont, and slave working conditions in the region. Folder also includes a captioned photograph from a newsletter (?) commemorating William K. Howard's thirty years of services as a firefighter.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions daughters Ellen and Cary were home for Christmas, going to Washington D.C. to visit Amy. Mamie had Christmas dinner with the Howards, Mamie injured herself after Christmas. Letter from Liz Howard to Frances about Christams, mentions John Glenn's flight on television and Bill's truck problems. Mentions snow storm of 15 inches and loss of power for 32 hours. Bill and Liz celebrated 25th wedding aniversary April 1962. Discusses school plans as well as work and summer plans for Cary and Ellen. Eugenia may have had a stroke 1962. Mentions a midnight Christmas service at St. George. Amy fell down stairs and broke her pelvis. Saw the Mona Lisa in Washington D.C. Mentions the marriage of Mr. Brigham to a Spencer from Williamsburg. Mentions that Jim will be out of the service in 1963. Writes of farm and animal life. Liz receives Mama's diamond. Mentions Belle Hill's estate price. Discusses Amy's will.","Letters, cards, and newspaper clippings to Frances Robb (Mrs. R.G. Robb). Bill retired his daughter Cary moved to Fairfax. Mentions Ellen and Cary's affairs. Cary and Ellen drive to Lake Tahoe. Ford Motor Company is interested in Freedom Hill. Bill and Liz celebrate their 29th anniversary. Mentions some purchases from Miller and Rhoads. Cary goes to Athens, Georgia mentions KKK trials. Mentions Bill and Lem Houston's march on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bill in court as witness about over assesment. William dies February 10, 1898. Manzie dies October 20, 1913- letters from Hollywood grave stones. Thank-you note from Liz. Mentions a trip to Montross. Thank-you letter for tulips. Mentions a 50 cent pieces Bobby is saving and plans of Ellen and Patti's trip to Europe.","Letters and cards from Bill and Liz to sister Frances Robb. Mentions affairs of Mamie, her moving, the sale of her house to Bill, her health, and estate. Writes of Clara and her health, operation, and later her death. Affairs of Cary and Ellen, schooling, travels, and their weddings. Writes on politics and the meeting of the Eight District of Legion. Mentions some dental problems, and that Olive Swanson from LaVere died. Also mentions Olive's sisters Blanche and Lousie Cassell and also mentions a geneology booklet about the Tuckahoe Randolphs being recently acquired. Writes of visiting Tuckahoe and Richmond with Buff and Sally. Nora is in hospital. Mincie Polock died and Bill died. Liz and Dorothy Harris visit Prince William, Manassas. Mentions a painting by Sully in Governor's Mansion. Bill elected to be Key Man for coming year. Bill buys a new car, went to Gay Mont and mentions book named Golden Age of Piracy. Discusses Christmas plans and gifts. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Discusses Belle Hill afairs such as hunting, dogs, and fuel oil as well as of Liz's new teaching job. Includes a typed copy of the History and Life of Thomas Mann Randolph and documentation of Gilchrist from the Clan Macfarlane. Columbia in hospital. Mentions Tides Inn visit to Shirley and Berkely Plantations. Bill still member of American Legion. Visits with family at Gay Mont. Mentions chromolithographs. Mentions Chestertown and Cambridge on the Eastern Shore where he worked. Liz injured herself. Writes of politics. Flower delivery for Frances. Bill giving up farming plans to rent Camden farm to Piedmont Fertilizer. Piedmont affairs. Mentions the weather, flooding and Paul Karsten's health. Writes of people in Florida. Writes of Bill and Buff's relationship and outings. Mentions \"We Began At Jamestown\" and party at Prospect Hill. Talks of high school reunion and John Billingsley's face lift. Mentions visit of Newt Hill and Clara Louise and daughter. Writes of hunting dogs and hunting. Mentions mulitple visits and socials with different persons. Bill is a grandpa and in 69 years old. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Bear sighting at Gay Mont. Mentions Cary, Fritz, and Ashley's travels. Mentions weather. Writes of dinner parties and guests. Plans for 50th high school reunion. Mentions photographs of John Eager's medal. Bill member of 32nd degree in Scottish RIte of Masonry in Richmond, initiated into Shriners. Includes copy of parole document from National Archives from Headquarters Department of Virginia 1865 William Howard as prisoner of war 4th Virginia Calvary, permission to go home to Maryland. Bill to be grandpa in May. Mentions multiple wedding anniversaries, weddings, and events of friends. Discusses possible oil shortages soon.","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Information on Cary, Fritz, and family. Writes about social visits from various family members. Bear sightings at Gay Mont. Writes of Washington D.C. and traffic issues as well as archival work. Includes copies: Philip L. Robb, William R. Bernard of Co.B 9th Virginia Calvary, (Johnson's Regiment). Mentions Ellen and Jim as well as Columbia's health improving. Writes of Tom's auto accident at Gay Mont and mentions Brown's Motel in Port Royal. Writes of Joe Holloway's funeral and events. Contains get well cards to Frances. Mentions hunting on his property and deer season. Contains 3 photographs of Ashley and Key. Mentions a brass Randolph paper clip and a New Year party at Propect Hill. Mentions the Hoyt's party and health. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Mentions Belle Hill and farm affairs. Writes of various persons being in the hospital. Mentions two historians from Park Services and a PhD visiting him to talk about Chatham, inquired of pictures, maps, and events. Writes of the geneology of the Virginian Howards and the Maryland Howards as well as an article Cary wrote. Writes of Liz's biopsy. Mentions Ellen's visit and travels. Discusses A.P.V.A. deal and people. Mentions Gay Mont, Mount Zion, a wedding at Vanters, Tappahannock, Mulberry Place, the Eupatorium Incarnatu, Kenmore, Woodlawn, and Bowling Green. Mentions Howard McHenry, Paul Karsten and his family, Frances Patton, the Boddies, Eleanor Iglehart, granddaughter Ashley, Mrs. Briggs, Charles and Madge Marshell, the Holmes, Katherine Yerby, and states that Mary Stevenson and John Billingsly died. Writes often of dogs and some of politics. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of fuel oil and prices. Mentions the weather and writes often of the dogs. Visits of family, Ellen, Liz, Cary, and grandchildren. Writes about historians inquiring about Chatham. Discussess geneological matters. Bill plants 7,00 pines on property-cost sharing-writes of trees. Mentions John and Peg Russell, Mary Coleman, Jim, David Holmes, Thomas and Lawson Waring, Dr. McFarland, Dorothy and Joe Harris, Bob Krick, the Caroline Historical Society, Taylor Turner, Dorothy Peters, Sally Scott Norris, Wallace Yerby, Forrest Dickinson, and Marge Arnold. Plans of going to Europe. Also mentions Napels Florida, St. Asaphs, Bowling Green, Tuckahoe, Belle Hill, Stratford, Camden, Spotsylvania, St. Peters, New Salem Church, Gay Mont, Vanters, and Fredericksburg. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Frances Robb is in the hospital. Writes of weather-mentions hang up dead water snake so rain would come. Writes of dogs and new dog. Mentions gardening and the Rappahannock Valley Garden Club. Writes of many social visits and church services. Mentions Lucille Reilly, John Ballentine, Virginius Dabney's history book, the Yerby's and the Wallace's, Rosalie, Ellen and Columbia, the Quarles, Raplph Robertsons, Alice Turner. Writes of Bowling Green, Wynnewood Pennsylvania, Gay Mont, Port Royal, Goldenvale Creek, Gouldman Dam. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Includes photograph of Lucy Anne Patterson \"Mamseys\" Mother. Mentions the weather. Writes of Ellen and Cary and their plans and travels. Mentions the dogs. Purchase of brick lined stove. Mentions Thanksgiving plans with family. Writes of various social visits and parties. Mentions Bob Hicks, Dorothy Harris, Ralph Fall, the Howards, the Russells and the Carters, Sally Norris Scott, and Rosalie Taylor, as well as Spring Grove, Bowling Green, Gay Mont and Snow Creek, the Crowningshield Building at Kenmore, and the Happy Clam. Writes of Columbus day being celebrated on the 10th not the 12th. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of Frances' dinner party and of the stone from James H. Byran Memorials of Harrisonburg. John A. Weaver is their Fredericksburg representative. Stone brought to Gay Mont-writes of mud and trouble with delivery. Bill's cousin Key died. Frances is in the hospital, plans to return home on her birthday. Liz thanks Fran for sending checks. Mentions settling France's estate. Description of Frances. Liz works at the hospital. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb, Letters of Jim, Meem and Patty. Bill thanks Fran and Bob for presents. Mentions New Year party at the Hoyt's and travels through Castles. Fran treated Jim to lunch, Fran to stay with either Cary or Jim. Letter to Meem and Patty talks about power lines and the APVA. Mentions Joanna Catron the curator at \"Belmont\", Anita Pratt, Madell family and Beverley, Taylor Turner's death, Louis Rollins, Jayne Harding, the Cheesmans, Beverley Pratt, Julian Hudson, the Bowens and Marjorie Strother, Jeff Gilbert, the Erhards. Also mentions the DMA picnic at Berry Plain. Mentions placing flags at grave sites. Writes of wedding plans. Mentions the Bowens making \"Oaken Brow\" into a spinach farm. Mentions Gay Mont, Bridgeville, Ghelarduccis and surrounding street names. Includes a page from a diary, and writes of viewing many photographs. Mentions various names of streets and locations. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Includes\"'calling card, brownley's, Washington, DC, message from Bill\". Index card with names of William Key Howard to sister Frances R.H. Robb, Frances Lightfoot Robb and wife, Elizabeth Crismond Howard. Index card from Elizabeth Crismond Howard to sister in law Frances Robb. Very small postcard from Smith Memorial, Philadelphia to Miss F.R. Howard in Washington DC. Postcard from Bill with photograph of Tsukuba. Postcards from Bill to F.R. Howard, postcard to Mrs. R.G. Robb, all with various images. As well as undated items in Howards-cards and letters folder. (A more detailed description located in folder.)","One 8\" x 10\" black and white photograph of Eugenia van Dyke Robb that was used for a story published by the Baltimore Sun in 1943.","This series contains letters, postcards, photographs, and other material related to the Robb-Bernard family. Most of the material relates to the family of Frances Robb. Some of the correspondents in the letters include Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., Frances Randolph Howard, and other members of the Howard family. Material related to Frances Robb's time at William and Mary is also included."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["American Chemical Society","American Red Cross","United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization","Bernard Family","Hipkins family","Robb family","Robb-Bernard family","Upton family","Taylor, John, 1753-1824","Tompkins, Sally Louisa, 1833-1916"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)","American Chemical Society","American Red Cross","United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization","Bernard Family","Hipkins family","Robb family","Robb-Bernard family","Upton family","Taylor, John, 1753-1824","Tompkins, Sally Louisa, 1833-1916"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)","American Chemical Society","American Red Cross","United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization"],"famname_ssim":["Bernard Family","Hipkins family","Robb family","Robb-Bernard family","Upton family"],"persname_ssim":["Taylor, John, 1753-1824","Tompkins, Sally Louisa, 1833-1916"],"language_ssim":["English French Dutch;Flemish"],"total_component_count_is":288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-24T23:22:27.474Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1928","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1928","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1928","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1928","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_1928.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Robb-Bernard Papers","title_ssm":["Robb-Bernard Papers"],"title_tesim":["Robb-Bernard Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1665-2001","1850-1950"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1850-1950"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1665-2001"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["01/Mss. 65 R54","/repositories/2/resources/1928"],"text":["01/Mss. 65 R54","/repositories/2/resources/1928","Robb-Bernard Papers","Alabama--History--19th century","Canada--Description and travel","Caroline County (Va.)--History--18th century","Caroline County (Va.)--History--19th century","Chandler Court (Williamsburg, Va.)","Germany--History--Allied occupation, 1945-","Maine--Description and travel","Virginia--Genealogy","Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century","American Red Cross--History--World War II period","Battleships--United States--History","Chemical warfare--United States--History--20th century.","College of William and Mary--History--19th century","College of William and Mary--History--20th century","College of William and Mary--Students","Genealogy","Legal documents","Matthew Whaley School (Williamsburg, Va.)","Philippines--History","United States--Women--History","Women--History--Virginia","Women--Virginia--Social life and customs","World War, 1939-1945","World War, 1939-1945--European Front","World War, 1939-1945--Japan","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Financial records","Photographs","Poems","Scrapbooks","Yearbooks","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Original Accession and additions physically and intellectually combined in 2009.","See the Finding Aide/Inventory for a brief description."," Original Accession of 14 boxes grouped by type of material, then chronologically within these groups."," Most of the additions to this collections are not yet processed.","John Hipkins Bernard was the son of William Bernard and Fannie Hipkins Bernard. His grandfather was John Hipkins. Bernard inherited \"Rose Hill,\"Caroline County, Va. from his grandfather and renamed it \"Gay Mont\" in honor of his wife Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, the sister of Governor Wyndham Robertson. Bernard's daughter Helen Struan Bernard Robb bought her siblings' interest in \"Gay Mont.\" Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  .","Other Information:"," A PDF document of this inventory is available online."," Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/65_R54_Robb-Bernard.pdf","Original Accession and additions physically and intellectually combined in 2009."," Most additions to this accession have not been processed nor an inventory created.  Please see the short descriptions under each Series in the Box and Folder listing."," Acc. 2012.112 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2012. Acc. 2013.052 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in March 2013.","Papers, 1800-1901, of and relating to John Hipkins and John Hipkins Bernard (mostly accounts); of and relating to members of the Hipkins, Bernard and Robb families; and relating to the Hipkins-Bernard-Robb home \"Rose Hill,\" Caroline County, Va. (later renamed \"Gay Mont\") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal documents and letters of John Taylor of Caroline. Of special interest are the diaries of Eugenia D. Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Germany and Japan during and after World War II (1999.56A)."," Additions include other material on the Robb, Bernard, Upton and Hipkins families from the 19th century through the 20th century."," Check the Finding Aid/Inventory and the PDF Inventory for descriptions and/or folder lists of original accession and all additions.","Original Accession.","D. Wilkie, Kensington [London], to James Wilson Croker. Accepts membership in club and returns list as reqested.","Includes information about the Robb-Bernard Family Papers and information about the Robb-Bernard family. Also includes various items within the Robb-Bernard Family Papers.","The Family of William \u0026 Elizabeth Bolling Robertson by James Samuel Patton - printed","\"The Family of William Robertson and his wife Elizabeth Bolling\" - mimeographed","Copies of Bible Records: 1. William and Elizabeth Bolling Robertson 2. Philip and Mary Warner Lewis Lightfoot 3. James and Lucy Waring Robb","John H. Bernard's Commission as Captain in the Virginia militia, May 20, 1815","Prayer by [John H. Bernard], [circa 1855], copied by [Helen S. Bernard]","\"John Hipkins, Merchant, Of Port Royal, Virginia\" - typed","Legal papers relating to the settlement of the estate of John Hipkins.  Inventories, law suits, and accounts between Elizabeth Hipkins, John H. Bernard, and others and William Bernard, Executor.  1 October 1801 - 20 November 1816.  (21 items)","Includes 13 items of Elizabeth Hipkins; 3 items of John Hipkins; and 11 items of John H. Bernard.","Detailed inventories, accounts, and legacies of Elizabeth Hipkins' estate. March 13, 1804 - November 23, 1829. (13 items).","John Hipkins' documents [?]. October 1802 - August 14, 1804. (3 items).","John H. Bernard indenture. July 10, 1804. (1 item).","John H. Bernard documents regarding the tract of land in Richmond County called \"Folly.\" April 3, 1818 - 1827[?]. (4 items).","John H. Bernard indentures regarding [Townfield] land in Caroline County, near Port Royal. July 3, 1818 and January 1, 1819. (2 items).","John H. Bernard and others indentures, lands in Caroline County, November 14, 1816; May2, 1817 \"Westerton\"; May 26, 1819 Port Royal; and June 15, 1831 Port Royal. (4 items).","Elizabeth Hipkins' mortgage book.  23 July 1808 - June 1830.  (1 item).","Ledger - accounts. First half of 1800s. (1 item).","Includes legal papers of William Bernard and John H. Bernard's notes, bills, receipts, etc.","Includes the notes, bills, receipts, accounts, and statements of John H. Bernard.  Also, the legal paper, receipts, and bills of William Bernard.","John H. Bernard notes, bills, receipts, accounts, statements. January 9, 1812 - May 2, 1818. (115 items).","William Bernard legal papers - receipts and bills. February 17, 181[3] - November 12, 1853. (18 items). (For more letters of William Bernard see business correspondence of John H. Bernard).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1818. (50 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1819. (86 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1820 (44 items); 1821 (17 items); 1822 (8 items); 1823 (15 items); 1824 (58 items); 1825 (52 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1826 (39 items); 1827 (24 items); 1828 (34 items); 1829 (48 items); 1830 (88 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.  1831 (72 items); 1832 (83 items); 1833 (81 items).  Gay Bernard accounts, 1832-1836 (5 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1834 (62 items); 1835 (32 items); 1836 (39 items); 1837 (52 items); 1838 (74 items); 1839 (36 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1840 (9 items); 1841 (42 items); 1842 (53 items); 1843 (16 items); 1844 (14 items); 1845 (50 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1846 (45 items); 1847 (43 items); 1848 (29 items); 1849 (40 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1850 (27 items); 1851 (54 items); 1852 including Arkansas land taxes (55 items); 1853 (59 items); 1854 (48 items); 1855 (22 items).","John H. Bernard and William R. Bernard bills, receipts and notes, etc. 1855-1860.","John H. Bernard accounts with William S. Quisenberry. 1831-1835.","John H. Bernard accounts with James Jackson. 1854 and 1857.","John H. Bernard accounts with William Farinholt. 1836-1839.","John H. Bernard accounts with William R. Care. 1834-1840.","John H. Bernard accounts, bills and receipts with William Gray and Company, Port Royal, Virginia. 1811-1839.","John H. Bernard Alabama Plantation Accounts. 1837-1852. Green County, Alabama.","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.. Dates unknown. (121 itmes).","John H. Bernard's receipt of the return of a runaway slave. March 15, 1834. (1 item).","Includes the will and bank books of John H. Bernard; legacies of Jane Gay Bernard; a copy of Robert G. Robb's will; and 1 document of Helen S. Robb.","John H. Bernard bank books. 1839-1845. (2 items).","John H. Bernard's will. 1841.","Jane Gay Bernard legacies. Unsigned, undated. [She died July 1852].","Copy of Robert G. Robb's will, December 13, 1852, and a statement to its validity.","Document of Helen S. Robb, October 5, 1881, directing that her husband, Philip L. Robb, shall manage her property.","Miscellaneous papers, 1800-1830.","John H. Bernard. 624 Checks. April 3, 1816 - November 20, 1854.","John H. Bernard and Family - scraps, visiting cards, envelopes.","13 items of Helen S. Robb and 1 pencil sketch.","Helen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) Confederate bonds. (3 items).","Helen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) settlements, accounts, bills and envelopes. 1859-1898. (10 items).","Pencil sketch. Dated 18 May [?]. (1 item).","Includes notebook of Helen S. Robb and diary of Helen Struan Bernard.","Helen S. Robb notebook containing accounts, receipts, poetry, etc. Late 19th century.","Unbound diary of Helen Struan Bernard [Mrs. P.L. Robb], 1848-1862.","Includes publications, extracts from publications, a report card, advertisments, and a photograph of the tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs.","Extracts from papers and magazines.","Volume 1, number 1, Southern Temperance Star, with account of October 1834 meeting of the Virginia State Temperance Society, January 1835.","Waldie's Select Circulating Library, including Part I, number 1, 1 January 1835.  8 different issues, 1835 and 1836.","Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Volume XCVIII, Number 586, Philadelphia, April 1879.  1 copy.","A Glance At Current American History by an Ex-Confederate, 1897.","Extracts from daily papers. Advertising matter. Undated and September 15, 1857.","Report card from B.B. Minor's school for young ladies for Helen S. Bernard dated for Quarter ending 31 October 1850. School regulations and costs are on the reverse side dated 23 September 1850.","Broadsides, \"Fenton's Patent Flint Enamel Ware,\" Patent secured November 27, 1849. 2 copies. Also, \"Prospect House and Terrace Garden, Table Rock, Canada West.\" undated.","Pamphlet, \"Parcel Post Information.\" undated.","Advertisements for carriages sent to Helen S. Robb, Port Royal, Virginia, May 25, 1899, from George Gravatt, Carriage Manufacturer, Federicksburg, Virginia.","Illustrative materials. (4 items).","Incomplete publication. Chapter II and III: \"Latitude, Longitude, and Time\" and \"The Moon\", also \"The Solar System.\"","Magazine photograph of Gay Mount, about 1920.","Photograph of tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs, great grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. Among other names on the tombstone is that of Wyndham Robertson, Governor of Virginia. (Photograph is mounted and is torn in half).","Manuscript poems. This group of papers consists of original poems [\"poetical, political prophetical effusions\"] by Jane Gay Bernard. Some responses from her friends are also included. Predominantly undated.","Unbound manuscript diary. This group of papers consists of sporadic entries in a diary of Jane Gay Robertson [wife of John Hipkins Bernard] through the years 1825-1849.","Indentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1665-1814.","Indentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1736-1805.","Includes bills of sale, documents, letters, a bond, and an unidentified manuscript.","Bills of sale of slaves. 1816-1849.","Documents and letters regarding land. 1715-1819.","Bond. 1826.","Unidentified manuscript.","Includes indentures and a note.","Indentures. 1787 and 1801.","Note. 1792.","Includes indentures, certificates, deeds, terms of agreement, and surveys.","Indentures. 1756-1810.","Certificates. 1804.","Deeds. 1743-1805.","Terms of agreement. 1810.","Surveys. 1741-1796.","John Taylor of Caroline County. Documents and correspondence. 1800-1824. (Materals regarding John H. Bernard and John Hipkins).","Philip Lightfoot notes, accounts, receipts, etc. 1810-1837. (19 items).","Includes notes and receipts of Robert G. Robb and repayment of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.","Robert G. Robb notes and receipts. 1841-1842. (5 items).","Repayment in 1924 of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.","Includes a boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller; a proclamation by R[obert] E. Lee; and Confederate secret signals.","Boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller, September 2, 1806. (1 item).","Proclamation to People of Maryland by R[obert] E. Lee. 1863. Copy. (1 item).","Confederate secret signals along the Rappahannock River. [1863?]. (2 items).","Miscellaneous accounts and receipts. 1835-1954. (9 items).","Record Book of the Trustees of Rappahannock Academy. 1810-1822.","Correspondence. March 5, 1791 - August 3, 1836. Including: Letter from Wyndam Robertson, February 25, 1817. Senator W.C. Rives' letter on his senate speech regarding nullification, March 7, 1833. Letter from James Barbour, May 12, 1834. Letter on land speculation, June 8, 1834, and opportunities in Alabama. Letter on land speculation in Arkansas and Louisiana, November 4, 1835. Letter on land speculation in Texas, and predicting defeat of the Mexican army by fall, August 3, 1836.","Correspondence, January 17, 1837 - November 10, 1841. Including: John Bradshaw, Middlebury College graduate, letter applying for teaching position in John H. Bernard's academy, May 13, 1841. Letters to and from John H. Bernard, his agents, lawyers, overseers, primarily relating to his Alabama, Arkansas, and Texan lands, 1837-1841.","Correspondence. March 1, 1842 - November 20, 1843. Including: Letters to and from John H. Bernard regarding his Arkansas, Alabama, and Texan lands, 1842-1843. Printed copy of John C. Calhoun's senate speech on the treaty of Washington, August 1842.","Correspondence March 9, 1844 - December 28, 1849. Including: Inventory of slaves, stock, tools, and acres planted on Bernard's Greene County, Alabama plantation, March 18, 1844. Letter commenting on migration from Arkansas to Texas, California, and Mexico, January 17, 1845. Letter from General Leslie Combs of Kentucky, November 12, 1845. J.H. Bernard's letter of advice to his son in college, February 15, 1846. Letter on religion and the way to salvation, September 27, 1846. Letter on social life, theatre, balls, weddings in Richmond, March 1847. Broadside of Fredericksburg Female Seminary, August 6, 1849.","Correspondence. 1850 - October 20, 1861. Including: Letter, January 20, 1851, regarding burning of St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans at time of Jenny Lind's visit. Trip to Vicksburg and up the Yazoo River to new plantation, reception, and life on the plantation from G.F.W., December 13, 1860. Letter from G.F.W. on national crisis, secession, and plantation plans, January 21, 1861.","Correspondence. June 18, 1862 - December 2, 1870. Including: Family letters to and from the Robbs at Gay Mont and their relatives and friends, January 1863.","Correspondence. February 9, 1871 - March 29, 1887.","Correspondence. April 4, 1887 - December 22, 1889. Including: Family letters to and from friends in Washington, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, April 1887.","Correspondence. January 4, 1890 - June 30, 1893. Including: Letter from A.H.A. Bernard on family genealogy, dining with Thomas Jefferson, and tutoring James Monrow, January 1891. Letter on exams at [Virginia Polytechnic Institute], February 1, 1891. Letters from \"Robin\" Robert G. Robb at William and Mary, December 3, 1891; January 8, 1892; April 17, 1892; November 20, 1892; December 11, 1892; March 20, 1893; March 26, 1893; May 10, 1893; May 28, 1893; and June 4, 1893. Letter to Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, January 9, 1892. Letter on commencement at Brown University and travel in New England, June 30, 1893.","Correspondence. July 10, 1893 - February 1897. Including: Robert G. Robb letters from the University of Virginia, September 19, 1893; February 14, 1894; April 15, 1894; April 22, 1894; May 6, 1894; October 3, 1894; October 7, 1894; October 28, 1894; November 4, 1894; November 18, 1894; November 25, 1894; January 13, 1895; February 10, 1895; October 1895; October 20, 1895; October 27, 1895; January 26, 1896; January 24, 1897.","Correspondence. July 1897 - September 11, 1901. Including: Letters regarding Robert G. Robb's appointment to the chair of Mathematics in the Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama, July and August 1891. Letter of Robert G. Robb at the University of Virginia, July 22, 1900.","Correspondence, publications, bills, receipts, etc. September 17, 1907 - May 18, 1936 and undated.","Loose envelopes and cards","2 empty portfolios","Diary of William Robb Bernard, 1870-1875. Jane Gay Robertson, 1812 memo book.","Xerox copy of typescript of letters in the form of a journal. John Hipkins Bernard's European Journey, 1818-1819 with Powhatan Robertson's.","Vols. 3 and 4 of Powhatan Robertson's European tour, 1818-1819. Manuscript diaries.","Copies of transcribed letters written by Bernard Robb to his family in \"Gay Mont\" Virginia while he was a student at the College of William and Mary. Two 1893 letters from his mother, Helen S. Bernard Robb, to her son, Robert G. Robb. WHRA. 1 folder.","The collection is mainly comprised of correspondence from the various Robbs and Bernards, as well as their relations the Uptons, who were originally from southern Maine. As well as the correspondence, there are also a few other items, such as Frances Upton's journal from a family trip to Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, between July 4 and August 9, 1928. Other items of interest are letters from a Netherlands woman named Mary to Frances Upton immediately following World War II (1945-1955,) along with letters home from Robert Upton during World War II","Twentieth-century Robb and Upton (maiden name of Mrs. Patton) family papers. List of dates of correspondence and names of correspondants filed at beginning of box.","Two letters of Sally Tompkins to Helen Robb, ca. 1878, and Dr. Martin Pickett Scott to his wife, 12 April 1879. 1878-1879.","Notebook of reminscences by Frances Robb's father, former professor of Chemistry, concerning Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. 1 folder.","Three letters to Frances Robb (Mrs. Robert G. Robb) in 1943 and 1951; one letter to Gay Robertson from Powhatan Robertson dated April 27, 1876 and one letter from Frances Robb to Mrs. Geratt, about 1920. 1 folder.","Diary and letters of Eugenia Robb from occupied Japan while Eugenia Robb was serving with the American Red Cross. Typescripts. Also a few letters from Italy. Detailed informative letters and diary. Original to come by bequest. 1945-47.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Letters written home by Eugenia van Dyke Robb defining her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan with the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescripts of autograph letters signed. (Originals of 36 letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 4.)","Three letters written by Eugenia van Dyke Robb when she was working for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, 1951-1953. Typescripts of autograph letters signed.","21 photographs taken by and of Eugenia van Dyke Robb in the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt.  Photographs.","Typescript of selected poems of Helen Struan Robb of \"Gay Mont\" aunt of the donor. Poem by donor's father Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.","Five poems by Helen Struan Robb, aunt of Eugenia Robb. The poems are entitled \"Beyond\", \"Absence\", \"To the Wood Robin\", \"Night Song\", and \"Love's Dawn\".","Two poems by Philip Lightfoot Robb, one entitled \"Sunbeam\" written to his daughter Eugenia Robb and the other entitled \"A Memory, the Homeward Path\" written about his beloved home \"Gaymont.\"","\"Moonlight,\" a poem by Eugenia Robb was written in Sendai, Japan in July 1946.","Typescript of diary and 5 letters of Eugenia Robb, 1947, during her assignment with the American Red Cross in Stuttgart, Germany. Also, 8 photographs of scenes in Germany. (Originals of six letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 2.) 3 folders.","Diaries, one scrapbook and letters of Eugenia Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Japan, Philippines, and Germany. Letters from Rome, Italy, 1951-1953. Includes items labeled MsV 1, 2, 3 and 4. 4 folders. 36 original letters from this accession were added to folder 4 of Acc. 1999.34. 6 original letters from this accession were added to folder 2 of Acc. 1999.56A.","5 items relating to Eugenia Robb's stay in Japan including a map tracing her sea voyage from Washington, D.C. to the Philippine Islands in December, 1945; her article about a well known Japanese flower arranger, the first Japanese brochure published after the war, two poems written by her father, Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.; and one poem written by herself.","Letters of principally Philip Lightfoot Robb, 1892-1896, while attending Cleveland High School in Fauquier County, Virginia.","Memorandum, 26 October 1932, between R. G. Robb and others to receive heat from the College of William and Mary (includes letter, 1937, and resolutions, 1937, of the Board of Visitors); letter, 14 March 1944, of G. E. Meanley to members of the Fort Magruder Fishing Club; pages from the Bulletin of the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society which contains an article (March 1932, Vol. IX, No. 6) of R. G. Robb \"Development of the Department of Chemistry at the College of William and Mary\" and appointment, 1930, of Robert Gilchrist Robb as Major in the Chemical Warfare Service (reserves). 1 folder. Fort Magruder Fishing Club letter transferred to Acc. 2002.46 Fort Magruder Fishing Club Papers.","Eugenia Robb's travel journal to Spain during the summer of 1952 and Philip L. Robb's song \"Tis Cupid wires my Heart to You.\"","Class of June 1948, Baltimore City College, Banquet Program honoring Phillip L. Robb, Teacher and Department Head of Chemistry, 1901-1948, with newspaper clipping concerning his retirement; certificate of distinction awarded to Philip L. Robb, June 7,1893, from Cleveland High School; May 1980 issue of Good Reading, including an article by Eugenia Van Dyke Robb entitled \"Picasso of the Flowers.\" 1 folder.","Large collection of papers, books and more given by James S. Patton.","Scrapbook about \"Welcum Hinges\" a book written by Bernard Robb. Contains printed articles and reviews. Photograph of portrait of John Hipkins Bernard. Photographs of Sutton Hall and St. Bartholomew's Church. Photograph of John Bernard Robb. Copy of 1857 pages from diary of Helen S. Bernard of \"Gay Mont,\" Caroline County, Virginia. Copies of correspondence of the Robb and Bernard Families from William and Mary Collection, 1857-1874. Copy of newspaper announcement of the marriage of Frederick Smith-Shenstone on February 6, 1873. Correspondence between John Sclater of London with James S. Patton and between East Sussex County Records Office and James S. Patton about Sutton Hall visit and genealogy. 1995. Portion of book written by John Sclater on the Sclater Family. Maps showing Sutton Hall area.","Gaymont Collection, a gift from APVA. Not yet processed. June 2013 Architectural Digest, p. 150, \"American Revival\" by Julia Reed about the history and restoration of Gay Mont added by staff in 2013. Includes several nineteenth-century cased photographs and early twentieth-century photographs.","William and Mary Senior Honor Thesis, April 2001, \"A Palace Called Beautiful, Virginia Women, The Confederacy and the Transmission of Southern Culture\" by Amanda Elizabeth Creekman.","Correspondence with A. Randolph Howard and the Navy Department about securing a memento of the Battleship Richmond for Mrs. William Augustine Smith who christened the Richmond when she was launched in 1860. Mrs. Smith was Harriett Field Robb, the daughter of Captain Robert Gilchrist Robb, U.S.N. and at that tiime, Commander of the Norfolk, Virginia Navy Yard.  Allen Randolph Howard was married to Frances Lightfoot Smith, the daughter of Mrs. William Augustine Smith.","Consist of war ration books for member of the Robb family, as well as Robert J. (Bobby) Robb's Matthew Whaley High School yearbooks, 1948-1950. Yearbooks contain many personalized dedications.","For members of the Robb family of Williamsburg, Va.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Photograph, ca. 1904, of a painting of Frances Randolph (Howard) Robb (b. 1894) at the age of 10. 1 folder.","Included are war ration books for the Robb family, an information sheet concerning registration for war ration books, as well as a tag for a shipment from Scotland imprinted with a Williamsburg business name: \"Cogar, Lewis and Geiger, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.\" 1 folder.","Primarily letters, 1944-1964, written by Earl Gregg Swem to Robert Robb and Frances Robb.  Also contains clippings related to Earl Gregg Swem, a card from John Stewart Bryan, and an invitation to dinner from John Stewart Bryan.","Contains letters, 1892, from Robert Gilchrist Robb to his mother and to Bernard Robb. There are also programs, 1944, from Bruton Parish Church.  1 folder.","Letters, 1939-1945, from Robert Hunt Land, College of William and Mary librarian, to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb. Land primarily wrote these letters while on the USS Brooklyn during World War II.  3 folders.","Contains letters, 1949-1952, written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb to her son, Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., while he was serving in the Army.  3 folders.","Letters addressed to members of the Robb family. Includes one letter, 1944 from a religious organization in Alaska, addressed to Robert Gilchrist Robb, to which the Robb family seemed to donate. There is also a Christmas card, 1992, addressed to Frances Robb.","Includes the baptismal record and accompanying letter from W.A.R. Goodwin of Frances Robb, a map of Cheatham Annex, a note written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb, and a booklet published by John Garland Pollard entitled \"A Connotary: Definitions not Found in Dictionaries.\"","Contains photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, and other material relating to the Robb and Bernard Families. The bulk of the accession consists of photographs and scrapbooks of family members, reunions, and family visits. Also included in the collection are Bruton Parish Church newsletters, material related to the Nicolas Mortiau Descendants Association; and travel diaries of Frances Robb during the 1920s.","Includs letters written to Robert Gilchrist Robb by residents of Williamsburg, including Janet Kimbrough, and material relating to the portrait of Robert Gilchrist Robb which hangs in the Special Collections Research Center.","Letters from Robert Hunt Land to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb, while Land was serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II.","Fragments of three letters written in the same hand, perhaps by someone with the first or last name \"Randolph.\"","Includes a diary of Frances Randolph Howard, letters of Robert Gilchrist Robb, and letters of J. Patton.","Contains letters to Frances Randolph Howard from various family members including William Key Howard, Carrie Stuart Davis, Frances Upton, and Nina Stuart Smith; photographs of William Taylor Smith and Clara Haxall Randolph; and the roll book of Robert Gilchrist Robb while a chemistry professor at William and Mary from 1944 to 1945.","Letters written by William Key Howard to his sister Frances R. Howard. In the earliest letters William mentions school and alludes to his outdoor hobbies: buying fishing tackle and shotgun shells. The later letters were written from old family estate known as Gay Mont, in Rappahannock Academy, Virginia, which belonged to the Robb-Bernard branch of the family. Letters concering hunting, swimming, and horseback riding summers of 1921 and 1922. Mentions numerous cousins who visted Gay Mont. The final letters were written from Fredericksburg, Virginia where William attended Fredericksburg High School. Contains two postcards to William from his sister Frances.","Letters from January 1923- May 1924 from William to his sister Frances while he attended Fredericksburg High School.  Also writes of getting a job with a liner, participation in military training exercises, as well as of target practice and drill. References to the building of the new armory.  Mentions a trip to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina- one letter written from Ft. Bragg tells sister he is now \"Pvt. W.K. Howard\"-it appears he was in the Army Reserve or the National Guard. Mentions his birthday and being promoted to sergeant.  Writes of football games, his Indian artifact collection, plans to visit Gay Mont and Canning, as well as his travelling by train to Kansas. Folder contains copy of letter from Fredericksburg High School to William's father concerning tuition and course schedule issues.  William also mentions his plans to attend V.P.I.  Photograph to sister of hazing tradition 'Rat Parade'.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances, from V.I.P. which express his dissatisfaction with the school. Feels he is wasting his time at the school, though he enjoys the athletics. His company won inter-company basketball and football championships, he took first place in shot put and second in javelin throwing. Mentions inspection of the school, which is labeled as 8th best in country, as well as a large fire near the school. Mentions letters of his guardian and financial advisor Mr. Young. Money from Mr. Young to buy Liberty Bond. He writes of going to see \"The Birth of a Nation.\"  He mentions Black people in the theater were clapping when the character Lynch  was carried through the street on the shoulders of celebrating Black people.  He writes that \"they had K.Ks. up in the gallery to keep the colored people quite [sic].\" William works on a ship as deck boy. Mentions going to see \"The Birth of a Nation\". Contains a letter from the Davey Tree Expert Company dated October 16, 1925 accepting William's acceptance into their tree surgeon program.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Howard. Writes of his training with Davey Tree Expert Company in Kent, Ohio. Mentions learning knots and how to work with the ropes.  Sent to Pennsylvania for paid field work, as well as Maryland.  Worries about keeping this job for the long term. Considers selling his Virginia Excelsior Company stock- thinks he and sister will get $6,000 each. Mentions Mr. Young his guardian (perhaps the same person as Mr. Edgar M. Young president of the Virginia Excelsior Company) William's father is connected with this company. Sister is getting married to Robert Gilchrist Robb in June.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Robb (nee Howard). William is working temporarily as crew member on a ship-sails to Antwerp and Rotterdam.  Returns and resumes job with Davey Tree Expert Company.  Works near Baltimore Maryland.  Mentions lay offs by \"Ford\". Leaves job at Davey Tree Expert Company in September and works for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Corporation. Longs for the sea.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William writes of having \"sent that lock of Boothe's [sic] hair that Grandma had to the Confederate Museum in Richmond.\" Mentions marital problems between his father and his second wife (Amy Margaret), she might move back to Texas. Mentions Frances and husband Robert Gilchrist Robb moving into the Paradise (Ludwell-Paradise) House on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. Longs for the sea, Frances worries about him when he sails. Desires to work on a ship through the Shipping Board. Some letters written while at sea on the SS Eastern Dawn which sailed to Europe including Antwerp. Contains photographs.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William spends winter months working on steamships sailing for Europe, ports including Copenhagan and Finland.  Inquires if there is work for tree surgeons in the restoration of Williamsburg- later says doesn't think Williamsburg,and contracting company Underwood, can afford him. Mentions time spent at Fall Hill, and friend Fred Robinson. Many Letters written from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania where he is doing tree work. Mentions joining the Virginia National Guard-training at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Writes of opprotunity to partly own a gold mine with his friend Lynn-mine is located in Honduras. William and friend Robbie contemplate going there. Novmeber 3, he mentions stock market and the crash.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions getting a job as a watchman at Kenmore (the one time home of George Washington's sister) which is being renovated.  Estate once belonged to William's grandfather William Key Howard Sr. as well as his Uncle Willam Key Howard Jr. He must keep watch at night- so he sleeps there.  Mentions cousin John Randolph died.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of moving to Belle Hill, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Works for the National Park Service, specifically as park superintendant of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Includes Newspaper clippings and announcement of his marriage to Elizabeth Burke Crismond on March 18, 1937. Father dies, mentions funeral-he is executor of father's estate-details. Mentions housewarming for new home at the park for Branch Spalding (coordinating superintendent for Virginia Civil War parks).","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions a war and a trip to the Baltic including stops at \"Danzig, Helsingford [sic] and Murmansk\". Mentions attending a fire training school and refers to a serious problem with Bob's (Robert Gilchrist Robb) eye.  Writes about his being discharged from the Virginia National Guard (?). Mentions plans for new job.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes he has volunteered for the Army, mentions that wife, Liz and their two daughters, will live in Spotsylvania Court House while he is away. Mentions renting his Belle Hill home to a soldier, and wants to rent the large house too. Mentions Army induction at Bowling Green and then moves to Camp Lee. He is stationed at Salem Airbase in Oregon for training. Mentions training experiences and his \"expert\" marksmanship. Believes he will be stationed behind the lines in war. Reassigned to \"Ono siding\" near San Bernardino, California. Describes location and his job there. Mentions plans to visit Los Angeles and Mexico, as well as visiting Hollywood where they made \"The Birth of a Nation\".","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes the he is applying for \"agriculturalist discharge\", his Belle Hill farm is no longer being cared for due to labor shortages, his request is denied.  Mentions concern for Robert Gilchrist Robb who recently fainted and requires bed rest.  Mentions the weather of San Bernardino.  Mentions his furlough being cancelled many times, wants to visit family in Virginia for Christmas.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of 700 Italian prisoners coming to a camp near San Bernardino, California, and their housing. Writes of camp life, mentions government-produced films being shown to the men. Mentions the weather of San Bernardino. References family in Virginia and responds to news from Frances, mentions his neice and her accomplishments. Included is a letter to William from Frances which mentions that her daughter will be attending Sweet Briar College. William mentions doings of other men like working at \"Kaisers steel mills\". Mentions his working extra hours for extra money for his upcoming furlough, received the good conduct metal which he finds ironic because he often breaks the rules. Includes pictures.","Letters from William Key Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of his quartermaster in San Bernardino, California being disbanded and of his transfer to Ft. Lewis near Seatle, Washington, expects to be assigned to medical duty. At Ft. Lewis he must go through basic training again and eight weeks of technical training. Describes his training experiences including a film entitled \"The Colored Soldier\", discusses race and the military. Anticipates his furlough at the end of training. Mentions many AWOLs and unit break ups- so the Army increased furloughs to raise moral. Mentions camp life at Ft. Lewis and his plans to visit Tokoma and Seattle, he prefers Seattle. Responds to news about his family and friends back home, mentions Robert Robb's illness many times, Robb had a blood clot and was bedridden.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions Robert Robb's upcoming retirement from William and Mary at the end of the 1945-1946 school year.  William began working at Quantico in 1945, received his terminal leave pay in December 1947. Alludes to nephew (Robert Robb Jr.) joining the Army. Mentions attending the dedication of a Stuart tablet at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in King George County, Virginia. Writes of visits to Gay Mont and of planting rye at Belle Hill.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb, mostly news about activities, health, and location of family members both immediate and distant. Mentions wife Liz being in Jamestown for Queen Elizabeth's visit. Gay Mont sold in 1958. Writes that he moved furniture and personal property: paintings (one by Sully sent to Frances). Appears upset about sale of Gay Mont. A 1958 map of Gay Mont included and hints that Pattons might buy Gay Mont soon. A few letters to Frances Robb from both William and his wife which mention France's daughter Fran having surgery twice. William works for the fire department at Quantico as well as at his farm Belle Hill.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions helping clean up debris left by the fire at Gay Mont, alludes to the Pattons' intention to restore the house.  Mentions his daughters, Ellen and Cary, attending Mary Washington College, Ellen also spent some time at William and Mary.  Mentions having portraits restored one of Ellen and one of Alice.  Comments on the inauguration of John F. Kennedy which he viewed on television.  References situation in Berlin and advises sister to buy extra food each week to build a supply.  William has been copying Uncle William's Civil War diary which mentions the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg which he was able to avoid. Includes a copy of an article \"The Valleys of Virginia- The Rappahannock\" published in 1859- mentions Port Royal, Gay Mont, and slave working conditions in the region. Folder also includes a captioned photograph from a newsletter (?) commemorating William K. Howard's thirty years of services as a firefighter.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions daughters Ellen and Cary were home for Christmas, going to Washington D.C. to visit Amy. Mamie had Christmas dinner with the Howards, Mamie injured herself after Christmas. Letter from Liz Howard to Frances about Christams, mentions John Glenn's flight on television and Bill's truck problems. Mentions snow storm of 15 inches and loss of power for 32 hours. Bill and Liz celebrated 25th wedding aniversary April 1962. Discusses school plans as well as work and summer plans for Cary and Ellen. Eugenia may have had a stroke 1962. Mentions a midnight Christmas service at St. George. Amy fell down stairs and broke her pelvis. Saw the Mona Lisa in Washington D.C. Mentions the marriage of Mr. Brigham to a Spencer from Williamsburg. Mentions that Jim will be out of the service in 1963. Writes of farm and animal life. Liz receives Mama's diamond. Mentions Belle Hill's estate price. Discusses Amy's will.","Letters, cards, and newspaper clippings to Frances Robb (Mrs. R.G. Robb). Bill retired his daughter Cary moved to Fairfax. Mentions Ellen and Cary's affairs. Cary and Ellen drive to Lake Tahoe. Ford Motor Company is interested in Freedom Hill. Bill and Liz celebrate their 29th anniversary. Mentions some purchases from Miller and Rhoads. Cary goes to Athens, Georgia mentions KKK trials. Mentions Bill and Lem Houston's march on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bill in court as witness about over assesment. William dies February 10, 1898. Manzie dies October 20, 1913- letters from Hollywood grave stones. Thank-you note from Liz. Mentions a trip to Montross. Thank-you letter for tulips. Mentions a 50 cent pieces Bobby is saving and plans of Ellen and Patti's trip to Europe.","Letters and cards from Bill and Liz to sister Frances Robb. Mentions affairs of Mamie, her moving, the sale of her house to Bill, her health, and estate. Writes of Clara and her health, operation, and later her death. Affairs of Cary and Ellen, schooling, travels, and their weddings. Writes on politics and the meeting of the Eight District of Legion. Mentions some dental problems, and that Olive Swanson from LaVere died. Also mentions Olive's sisters Blanche and Lousie Cassell and also mentions a geneology booklet about the Tuckahoe Randolphs being recently acquired. Writes of visiting Tuckahoe and Richmond with Buff and Sally. Nora is in hospital. Mincie Polock died and Bill died. Liz and Dorothy Harris visit Prince William, Manassas. Mentions a painting by Sully in Governor's Mansion. Bill elected to be Key Man for coming year. Bill buys a new car, went to Gay Mont and mentions book named Golden Age of Piracy. Discusses Christmas plans and gifts. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Discusses Belle Hill afairs such as hunting, dogs, and fuel oil as well as of Liz's new teaching job. Includes a typed copy of the History and Life of Thomas Mann Randolph and documentation of Gilchrist from the Clan Macfarlane. Columbia in hospital. Mentions Tides Inn visit to Shirley and Berkely Plantations. Bill still member of American Legion. Visits with family at Gay Mont. Mentions chromolithographs. Mentions Chestertown and Cambridge on the Eastern Shore where he worked. Liz injured herself. Writes of politics. Flower delivery for Frances. Bill giving up farming plans to rent Camden farm to Piedmont Fertilizer. Piedmont affairs. Mentions the weather, flooding and Paul Karsten's health. Writes of people in Florida. Writes of Bill and Buff's relationship and outings. Mentions \"We Began At Jamestown\" and party at Prospect Hill. Talks of high school reunion and John Billingsley's face lift. Mentions visit of Newt Hill and Clara Louise and daughter. Writes of hunting dogs and hunting. Mentions mulitple visits and socials with different persons. Bill is a grandpa and in 69 years old. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Bear sighting at Gay Mont. Mentions Cary, Fritz, and Ashley's travels. Mentions weather. Writes of dinner parties and guests. Plans for 50th high school reunion. Mentions photographs of John Eager's medal. Bill member of 32nd degree in Scottish RIte of Masonry in Richmond, initiated into Shriners. Includes copy of parole document from National Archives from Headquarters Department of Virginia 1865 William Howard as prisoner of war 4th Virginia Calvary, permission to go home to Maryland. Bill to be grandpa in May. Mentions multiple wedding anniversaries, weddings, and events of friends. Discusses possible oil shortages soon.","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Information on Cary, Fritz, and family. Writes about social visits from various family members. Bear sightings at Gay Mont. Writes of Washington D.C. and traffic issues as well as archival work. Includes copies: Philip L. Robb, William R. Bernard of Co.B 9th Virginia Calvary, (Johnson's Regiment). Mentions Ellen and Jim as well as Columbia's health improving. Writes of Tom's auto accident at Gay Mont and mentions Brown's Motel in Port Royal. Writes of Joe Holloway's funeral and events. Contains get well cards to Frances. Mentions hunting on his property and deer season. Contains 3 photographs of Ashley and Key. Mentions a brass Randolph paper clip and a New Year party at Propect Hill. Mentions the Hoyt's party and health. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Mentions Belle Hill and farm affairs. Writes of various persons being in the hospital. Mentions two historians from Park Services and a PhD visiting him to talk about Chatham, inquired of pictures, maps, and events. Writes of the geneology of the Virginian Howards and the Maryland Howards as well as an article Cary wrote. Writes of Liz's biopsy. Mentions Ellen's visit and travels. Discusses A.P.V.A. deal and people. Mentions Gay Mont, Mount Zion, a wedding at Vanters, Tappahannock, Mulberry Place, the Eupatorium Incarnatu, Kenmore, Woodlawn, and Bowling Green. Mentions Howard McHenry, Paul Karsten and his family, Frances Patton, the Boddies, Eleanor Iglehart, granddaughter Ashley, Mrs. Briggs, Charles and Madge Marshell, the Holmes, Katherine Yerby, and states that Mary Stevenson and John Billingsly died. Writes often of dogs and some of politics. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of fuel oil and prices. Mentions the weather and writes often of the dogs. Visits of family, Ellen, Liz, Cary, and grandchildren. Writes about historians inquiring about Chatham. Discussess geneological matters. Bill plants 7,00 pines on property-cost sharing-writes of trees. Mentions John and Peg Russell, Mary Coleman, Jim, David Holmes, Thomas and Lawson Waring, Dr. McFarland, Dorothy and Joe Harris, Bob Krick, the Caroline Historical Society, Taylor Turner, Dorothy Peters, Sally Scott Norris, Wallace Yerby, Forrest Dickinson, and Marge Arnold. Plans of going to Europe. Also mentions Napels Florida, St. Asaphs, Bowling Green, Tuckahoe, Belle Hill, Stratford, Camden, Spotsylvania, St. Peters, New Salem Church, Gay Mont, Vanters, and Fredericksburg. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Frances Robb is in the hospital. Writes of weather-mentions hang up dead water snake so rain would come. Writes of dogs and new dog. Mentions gardening and the Rappahannock Valley Garden Club. Writes of many social visits and church services. Mentions Lucille Reilly, John Ballentine, Virginius Dabney's history book, the Yerby's and the Wallace's, Rosalie, Ellen and Columbia, the Quarles, Raplph Robertsons, Alice Turner. Writes of Bowling Green, Wynnewood Pennsylvania, Gay Mont, Port Royal, Goldenvale Creek, Gouldman Dam. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Includes photograph of Lucy Anne Patterson \"Mamseys\" Mother. Mentions the weather. Writes of Ellen and Cary and their plans and travels. Mentions the dogs. Purchase of brick lined stove. Mentions Thanksgiving plans with family. Writes of various social visits and parties. Mentions Bob Hicks, Dorothy Harris, Ralph Fall, the Howards, the Russells and the Carters, Sally Norris Scott, and Rosalie Taylor, as well as Spring Grove, Bowling Green, Gay Mont and Snow Creek, the Crowningshield Building at Kenmore, and the Happy Clam. Writes of Columbus day being celebrated on the 10th not the 12th. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of Frances' dinner party and of the stone from James H. Byran Memorials of Harrisonburg. John A. Weaver is their Fredericksburg representative. Stone brought to Gay Mont-writes of mud and trouble with delivery. Bill's cousin Key died. Frances is in the hospital, plans to return home on her birthday. Liz thanks Fran for sending checks. Mentions settling France's estate. Description of Frances. Liz works at the hospital. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb, Letters of Jim, Meem and Patty. Bill thanks Fran and Bob for presents. Mentions New Year party at the Hoyt's and travels through Castles. Fran treated Jim to lunch, Fran to stay with either Cary or Jim. Letter to Meem and Patty talks about power lines and the APVA. Mentions Joanna Catron the curator at \"Belmont\", Anita Pratt, Madell family and Beverley, Taylor Turner's death, Louis Rollins, Jayne Harding, the Cheesmans, Beverley Pratt, Julian Hudson, the Bowens and Marjorie Strother, Jeff Gilbert, the Erhards. Also mentions the DMA picnic at Berry Plain. Mentions placing flags at grave sites. Writes of wedding plans. Mentions the Bowens making \"Oaken Brow\" into a spinach farm. Mentions Gay Mont, Bridgeville, Ghelarduccis and surrounding street names. Includes a page from a diary, and writes of viewing many photographs. Mentions various names of streets and locations. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Includes\"'calling card, brownley's, Washington, DC, message from Bill\". Index card with names of William Key Howard to sister Frances R.H. Robb, Frances Lightfoot Robb and wife, Elizabeth Crismond Howard. Index card from Elizabeth Crismond Howard to sister in law Frances Robb. Very small postcard from Smith Memorial, Philadelphia to Miss F.R. Howard in Washington DC. Postcard from Bill with photograph of Tsukuba. Postcards from Bill to F.R. Howard, postcard to Mrs. R.G. Robb, all with various images. As well as undated items in Howards-cards and letters folder. (A more detailed description located in folder.)","One 8\" x 10\" black and white photograph of Eugenia van Dyke Robb that was used for a story published by the Baltimore Sun in 1943.","This series contains letters, postcards, photographs, and other material related to the Robb-Bernard family. Most of the material relates to the family of Frances Robb. Some of the correspondents in the letters include Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., Frances Randolph Howard, and other members of the Howard family. 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Robb of Caroline County, Virginia, James S. Patton, Frances Robb, and Eugenia Robb in various batches between 1940 and 2007.   1940-28D, 1947.28, 1947.33  - Gift of Fannie B. Robb 1983.28 - Gift of William Y.C. White, Jr. 1983.35 - Gift of Madge G. Baya. 1975.18, 1976.02, 1979.18, 1985.41, 1986.32, 1987.42, 1996.58 - Gift of James Samuel Patton 1999.34, 1999.43, 1999.56, 2000.47, 2000.61, 2002.33 - Gift of Eugenia V. Robb 1993.65, 2005.34, 2005.49, 2007.93 - Gift of Frances Robb 2008.78 - Gift of Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 1985.40 - Gift of James S. Patton via Williamsburg Historic Records Association. 2010.353 and 2010.385 are gift of Frances Robb. 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His grandfather was John Hipkins. Bernard inherited \"Rose Hill,\"Caroline County, Va. from his grandfather and renamed it \"Gay Mont\" in honor of his wife Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, the sister of Governor Wyndham Robertson. Bernard's daughter Helen Struan Bernard Robb bought her siblings' interest in \"Gay Mont.\" Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: \u003cextref href=\"http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Robb-Bernard_Family\" title=\"Robb-Bernard Family\"\u003e\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Hipkins Bernard was the son of William Bernard and Fannie Hipkins Bernard. His grandfather was John Hipkins. Bernard inherited \"Rose Hill,\"Caroline County, Va. from his grandfather and renamed it \"Gay Mont\" in honor of his wife Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, the sister of Governor Wyndham Robertson. 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(later renamed \"Gay Mont\") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal documents and letters of John Taylor of Caroline. Of special interest are the diaries of Eugenia D. Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Germany and Japan during and after World War II (1999.56A).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Additions include other material on the Robb, Bernard, Upton and Hipkins families from the 19th century through the 20th century.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Check the Finding Aid/Inventory and the PDF Inventory for descriptions and/or folder lists of original accession and all additions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal Accession.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD. Wilkie, Kensington [London], to James Wilson Croker. Accepts membership in club and returns list as reqested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information about the Robb-Bernard Family Papers and information about the Robb-Bernard family. Also includes various items within the Robb-Bernard Family Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Family of William \u0026amp; Elizabeth Bolling Robertson by James Samuel Patton - printed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Family of William Robertson and his wife Elizabeth Bolling\" - mimeographed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of Bible Records: 1. William and Elizabeth Bolling Robertson 2. Philip and Mary Warner Lewis Lightfoot 3. James and Lucy Waring Robb\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard's Commission as Captain in the Virginia militia, May 20, 1815\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrayer by [John H. Bernard], [circa 1855], copied by [Helen S. Bernard]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"John Hipkins, Merchant, Of Port Royal, Virginia\" - typed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal papers relating to the settlement of the estate of John Hipkins.  Inventories, law suits, and accounts between Elizabeth Hipkins, John H. Bernard, and others and William Bernard, Executor.  1 October 1801 - 20 November 1816.  (21 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 13 items of Elizabeth Hipkins; 3 items of John Hipkins; and 11 items of John H. Bernard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed inventories, accounts, and legacies of Elizabeth Hipkins' estate. March 13, 1804 - November 23, 1829. (13 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Hipkins' documents [?]. October 1802 - August 14, 1804. (3 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard indenture. July 10, 1804. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard documents regarding the tract of land in Richmond County called \"Folly.\" April 3, 1818 - 1827[?]. (4 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard indentures regarding [Townfield] land in Caroline County, near Port Royal. July 3, 1818 and January 1, 1819. (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard and others indentures, lands in Caroline County, November 14, 1816; May2, 1817 \"Westerton\"; May 26, 1819 Port Royal; and June 15, 1831 Port Royal. (4 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Hipkins' mortgage book.  23 July 1808 - June 1830.  (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger - accounts. First half of 1800s. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes legal papers of William Bernard and John H. Bernard's notes, bills, receipts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the notes, bills, receipts, accounts, and statements of John H. Bernard.  Also, the legal paper, receipts, and bills of William Bernard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills, receipts, accounts, statements. January 9, 1812 - May 2, 1818. (115 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Bernard legal papers - receipts and bills. February 17, 181[3] - November 12, 1853. (18 items). (For more letters of William Bernard see business correspondence of John H. Bernard).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1818. (50 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1819. (86 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1820 (44 items); 1821 (17 items); 1822 (8 items); 1823 (15 items); 1824 (58 items); 1825 (52 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1826 (39 items); 1827 (24 items); 1828 (34 items); 1829 (48 items); 1830 (88 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.  1831 (72 items); 1832 (83 items); 1833 (81 items).  Gay Bernard accounts, 1832-1836 (5 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1834 (62 items); 1835 (32 items); 1836 (39 items); 1837 (52 items); 1838 (74 items); 1839 (36 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1840 (9 items); 1841 (42 items); 1842 (53 items); 1843 (16 items); 1844 (14 items); 1845 (50 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1846 (45 items); 1847 (43 items); 1848 (29 items); 1849 (40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1850 (27 items); 1851 (54 items); 1852 including Arkansas land taxes (55 items); 1853 (59 items); 1854 (48 items); 1855 (22 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard and William R. Bernard bills, receipts and notes, etc. 1855-1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts with William S. Quisenberry. 1831-1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts with James Jackson. 1854 and 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts with William Farinholt. 1836-1839.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts with William R. Care. 1834-1840.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard accounts, bills and receipts with William Gray and Company, Port Royal, Virginia. 1811-1839.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard Alabama Plantation Accounts. 1837-1852. Green County, Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.. Dates unknown. (121 itmes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard's receipt of the return of a runaway slave. March 15, 1834. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the will and bank books of John H. Bernard; legacies of Jane Gay Bernard; a copy of Robert G. Robb's will; and 1 document of Helen S. Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard bank books. 1839-1845. (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard's will. 1841.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJane Gay Bernard legacies. Unsigned, undated. [She died July 1852].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of Robert G. Robb's will, December 13, 1852, and a statement to its validity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument of Helen S. Robb, October 5, 1881, directing that her husband, Philip L. Robb, shall manage her property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous papers, 1800-1830.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard. 624 Checks. April 3, 1816 - November 20, 1854.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Bernard and Family - scraps, visiting cards, envelopes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items of Helen S. Robb and 1 pencil sketch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHelen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) Confederate bonds. (3 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHelen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) settlements, accounts, bills and envelopes. 1859-1898. (10 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePencil sketch. Dated 18 May [?]. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notebook of Helen S. Robb and diary of Helen Struan Bernard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHelen S. Robb notebook containing accounts, receipts, poetry, etc. Late 19th century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnbound diary of Helen Struan Bernard [Mrs. P.L. 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Bernard dated for Quarter ending 31 October 1850. School regulations and costs are on the reverse side dated 23 September 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadsides, \"Fenton's Patent Flint Enamel Ware,\" Patent secured November 27, 1849. 2 copies. Also, \"Prospect House and Terrace Garden, Table Rock, Canada West.\" undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePamphlet, \"Parcel Post Information.\" undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvertisements for carriages sent to Helen S. Robb, Port Royal, Virginia, May 25, 1899, from George Gravatt, Carriage Manufacturer, Federicksburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrative materials. (4 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete publication. Chapter II and III: \"Latitude, Longitude, and Time\" and \"The Moon\", also \"The Solar System.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMagazine photograph of Gay Mount, about 1920.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs, great grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. Among other names on the tombstone is that of Wyndham Robertson, Governor of Virginia. (Photograph is mounted and is torn in half).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript poems. This group of papers consists of original poems [\"poetical, political prophetical effusions\"] by Jane Gay Bernard. Some responses from her friends are also included. Predominantly undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnbound manuscript diary. 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Documents and correspondence. 1800-1824. (Materals regarding John H. Bernard and John Hipkins).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhilip Lightfoot notes, accounts, receipts, etc. 1810-1837. (19 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes and receipts of Robert G. Robb and repayment of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert G. Robb notes and receipts. 1841-1842. (5 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepayment in 1924 of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller; a proclamation by R[obert] E. Lee; and Confederate secret signals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller, September 2, 1806. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProclamation to People of Maryland by R[obert] E. Lee. 1863. Copy. (1 item).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfederate secret signals along the Rappahannock River. [1863?]. (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous accounts and receipts. 1835-1954. (9 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecord Book of the Trustees of Rappahannock Academy. 1810-1822.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. March 5, 1791 - August 3, 1836. Including: Letter from Wyndam Robertson, February 25, 1817. Senator W.C. Rives' letter on his senate speech regarding nullification, March 7, 1833. Letter from James Barbour, May 12, 1834. Letter on land speculation, June 8, 1834, and opportunities in Alabama. Letter on land speculation in Arkansas and Louisiana, November 4, 1835. Letter on land speculation in Texas, and predicting defeat of the Mexican army by fall, August 3, 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, January 17, 1837 - November 10, 1841. Including: John Bradshaw, Middlebury College graduate, letter applying for teaching position in John H. Bernard's academy, May 13, 1841. Letters to and from John H. Bernard, his agents, lawyers, overseers, primarily relating to his Alabama, Arkansas, and Texan lands, 1837-1841.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. March 1, 1842 - November 20, 1843. Including: Letters to and from John H. Bernard regarding his Arkansas, Alabama, and Texan lands, 1842-1843. Printed copy of John C. Calhoun's senate speech on the treaty of Washington, August 1842.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence March 9, 1844 - December 28, 1849. Including: Inventory of slaves, stock, tools, and acres planted on Bernard's Greene County, Alabama plantation, March 18, 1844. Letter commenting on migration from Arkansas to Texas, California, and Mexico, January 17, 1845. Letter from General Leslie Combs of Kentucky, November 12, 1845. J.H. Bernard's letter of advice to his son in college, February 15, 1846. Letter on religion and the way to salvation, September 27, 1846. Letter on social life, theatre, balls, weddings in Richmond, March 1847. Broadside of Fredericksburg Female Seminary, August 6, 1849.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. 1850 - October 20, 1861. Including: Letter, January 20, 1851, regarding burning of St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans at time of Jenny Lind's visit. Trip to Vicksburg and up the Yazoo River to new plantation, reception, and life on the plantation from G.F.W., December 13, 1860. Letter from G.F.W. on national crisis, secession, and plantation plans, January 21, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. June 18, 1862 - December 2, 1870. Including: Family letters to and from the Robbs at Gay Mont and their relatives and friends, January 1863.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. February 9, 1871 - March 29, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. April 4, 1887 - December 22, 1889. Including: Family letters to and from friends in Washington, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, April 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. January 4, 1890 - June 30, 1893. Including: Letter from A.H.A. Bernard on family genealogy, dining with Thomas Jefferson, and tutoring James Monrow, January 1891. Letter on exams at [Virginia Polytechnic Institute], February 1, 1891. Letters from \"Robin\" Robert G. Robb at William and Mary, December 3, 1891; January 8, 1892; April 17, 1892; November 20, 1892; December 11, 1892; March 20, 1893; March 26, 1893; May 10, 1893; May 28, 1893; and June 4, 1893. Letter to Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, January 9, 1892. Letter on commencement at Brown University and travel in New England, June 30, 1893.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. July 10, 1893 - February 1897. Including: Robert G. Robb letters from the University of Virginia, September 19, 1893; February 14, 1894; April 15, 1894; April 22, 1894; May 6, 1894; October 3, 1894; October 7, 1894; October 28, 1894; November 4, 1894; November 18, 1894; November 25, 1894; January 13, 1895; February 10, 1895; October 1895; October 20, 1895; October 27, 1895; January 26, 1896; January 24, 1897.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence. July 1897 - September 11, 1901. Including: Letters regarding Robert G. Robb's appointment to the chair of Mathematics in the Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama, July and August 1891. Letter of Robert G. Robb at the University of Virginia, July 22, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, publications, bills, receipts, etc. September 17, 1907 - May 18, 1936 and undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoose envelopes and cards\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 empty portfolios\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of William Robb Bernard, 1870-1875. Jane Gay Robertson, 1812 memo book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eXerox copy of typescript of letters in the form of a journal. John Hipkins Bernard's European Journey, 1818-1819 with Powhatan Robertson's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVols. 3 and 4 of Powhatan Robertson's European tour, 1818-1819. Manuscript diaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of transcribed letters written by Bernard Robb to his family in \"Gay Mont\" Virginia while he was a student at the College of William and Mary. Two 1893 letters from his mother, Helen S. Bernard Robb, to her son, Robert G. Robb. WHRA. 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection is mainly comprised of correspondence from the various Robbs and Bernards, as well as their relations the Uptons, who were originally from southern Maine. As well as the correspondence, there are also a few other items, such as Frances Upton's journal from a family trip to Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, between July 4 and August 9, 1928. Other items of interest are letters from a Netherlands woman named Mary to Frances Upton immediately following World War II (1945-1955,) along with letters home from Robert Upton during World War II\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwentieth-century Robb and Upton (maiden name of Mrs. Patton) family papers. List of dates of correspondence and names of correspondants filed at beginning of box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters of Sally Tompkins to Helen Robb, ca. 1878, and Dr. Martin Pickett Scott to his wife, 12 April 1879. 1878-1879.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotebook of reminscences by Frances Robb's father, former professor of Chemistry, concerning Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters to Frances Robb (Mrs. Robert G. Robb) in 1943 and 1951; one letter to Gay Robertson from Powhatan Robertson dated April 27, 1876 and one letter from Frances Robb to Mrs. Geratt, about 1920. 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary and letters of Eugenia Robb from occupied Japan while Eugenia Robb was serving with the American Red Cross. Typescripts. Also a few letters from Italy. Detailed informative letters and diary. Original to come by bequest. 1945-47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written home by Eugenia van Dyke Robb defining her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan with the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescripts of autograph letters signed. (Originals of 36 letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 4.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters written by Eugenia van Dyke Robb when she was working for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, 1951-1953. Typescripts of autograph letters signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 photographs taken by and of Eugenia van Dyke Robb in the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt.  Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of selected poems of Helen Struan Robb of \"Gay Mont\" aunt of the donor. Poem by donor's father Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive poems by Helen Struan Robb, aunt of Eugenia Robb. The poems are entitled \"Beyond\", \"Absence\", \"To the Wood Robin\", \"Night Song\", and \"Love's Dawn\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo poems by Philip Lightfoot Robb, one entitled \"Sunbeam\" written to his daughter Eugenia Robb and the other entitled \"A Memory, the Homeward Path\" written about his beloved home \"Gaymont.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Moonlight,\" a poem by Eugenia Robb was written in Sendai, Japan in July 1946.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of diary and 5 letters of Eugenia Robb, 1947, during her assignment with the American Red Cross in Stuttgart, Germany. Also, 8 photographs of scenes in Germany. (Originals of six letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 2.) 3 folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries, one scrapbook and letters of Eugenia Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Japan, Philippines, and Germany. Letters from Rome, Italy, 1951-1953. Includes items labeled MsV 1, 2, 3 and 4. 4 folders. 36 original letters from this accession were added to folder 4 of Acc. 1999.34. 6 original letters from this accession were added to folder 2 of Acc. 1999.56A.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items relating to Eugenia Robb's stay in Japan including a map tracing her sea voyage from Washington, D.C. to the Philippine Islands in December, 1945; her article about a well known Japanese flower arranger, the first Japanese brochure published after the war, two poems written by her father, Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.; and one poem written by herself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of principally Philip Lightfoot Robb, 1892-1896, while attending Cleveland High School in Fauquier County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum, 26 October 1932, between R. G. Robb and others to receive heat from the College of William and Mary (includes letter, 1937, and resolutions, 1937, of the Board of Visitors); letter, 14 March 1944, of G. E. Meanley to members of the Fort Magruder Fishing Club; pages from the Bulletin of the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society which contains an article (March 1932, Vol. IX, No. 6) of R. G. Robb \"Development of the Department of Chemistry at the College of William and Mary\" and appointment, 1930, of Robert Gilchrist Robb as Major in the Chemical Warfare Service (reserves). 1 folder. Fort Magruder Fishing Club letter transferred to Acc. 2002.46 Fort Magruder Fishing Club Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEugenia Robb's travel journal to Spain during the summer of 1952 and Philip L. Robb's song \"Tis Cupid wires my Heart to You.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass of June 1948, Baltimore City College, Banquet Program honoring Phillip L. Robb, Teacher and Department Head of Chemistry, 1901-1948, with newspaper clipping concerning his retirement; certificate of distinction awarded to Philip L. Robb, June 7,1893, from Cleveland High School; May 1980 issue of Good Reading, including an article by Eugenia Van Dyke Robb entitled \"Picasso of the Flowers.\" 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLarge collection of papers, books and more given by James S. Patton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook about \"Welcum Hinges\" a book written by Bernard Robb. Contains printed articles and reviews. Photograph of portrait of John Hipkins Bernard. Photographs of Sutton Hall and St. Bartholomew's Church. Photograph of John Bernard Robb. Copy of 1857 pages from diary of Helen S. Bernard of \"Gay Mont,\" Caroline County, Virginia. Copies of correspondence of the Robb and Bernard Families from William and Mary Collection, 1857-1874. Copy of newspaper announcement of the marriage of Frederick Smith-Shenstone on February 6, 1873. Correspondence between John Sclater of London with James S. Patton and between East Sussex County Records Office and James S. Patton about Sutton Hall visit and genealogy. 1995. Portion of book written by John Sclater on the Sclater Family. Maps showing Sutton Hall area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGaymont Collection, a gift from APVA. Not yet processed. June 2013 Architectural Digest, p. 150, \"American Revival\" by Julia Reed about the history and restoration of Gay Mont added by staff in 2013. Includes several nineteenth-century cased photographs and early twentieth-century photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam and Mary Senior Honor Thesis, April 2001, \"A Palace Called Beautiful, Virginia Women, The Confederacy and the Transmission of Southern Culture\" by Amanda Elizabeth Creekman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with A. Randolph Howard and the Navy Department about securing a memento of the Battleship Richmond for Mrs. William Augustine Smith who christened the Richmond when she was launched in 1860. Mrs. Smith was Harriett Field Robb, the daughter of Captain Robert Gilchrist Robb, U.S.N. and at that tiime, Commander of the Norfolk, Virginia Navy Yard.  Allen Randolph Howard was married to Frances Lightfoot Smith, the daughter of Mrs. William Augustine Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsist of war ration books for member of the Robb family, as well as Robert J. (Bobby) Robb's Matthew Whaley High School yearbooks, 1948-1950. Yearbooks contain many personalized dedications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor members of the Robb family of Williamsburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBelonging to Robert J. Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBelonging to Robert J. Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBelonging to Robert J. Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph, ca. 1904, of a painting of Frances Randolph (Howard) Robb (b. 1894) at the age of 10. 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are war ration books for the Robb family, an information sheet concerning registration for war ration books, as well as a tag for a shipment from Scotland imprinted with a Williamsburg business name: \"Cogar, Lewis and Geiger, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.\" 1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrimarily letters, 1944-1964, written by Earl Gregg Swem to Robert Robb and Frances Robb.  Also contains clippings related to Earl Gregg Swem, a card from John Stewart Bryan, and an invitation to dinner from John Stewart Bryan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters, 1892, from Robert Gilchrist Robb to his mother and to Bernard Robb. There are also programs, 1944, from Bruton Parish Church.  1 folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1939-1945, from Robert Hunt Land, College of William and Mary librarian, to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb. Land primarily wrote these letters while on the USS Brooklyn during World War II.  3 folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters, 1949-1952, written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb to her son, Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., while he was serving in the Army.  3 folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters addressed to members of the Robb family. Includes one letter, 1944 from a religious organization in Alaska, addressed to Robert Gilchrist Robb, to which the Robb family seemed to donate. There is also a Christmas card, 1992, addressed to Frances Robb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the baptismal record and accompanying letter from W.A.R. Goodwin of Frances Robb, a map of Cheatham Annex, a note written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb, and a booklet published by John Garland Pollard entitled \"A Connotary: Definitions not Found in Dictionaries.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, and other material relating to the Robb and Bernard Families. The bulk of the accession consists of photographs and scrapbooks of family members, reunions, and family visits. Also included in the collection are Bruton Parish Church newsletters, material related to the Nicolas Mortiau Descendants Association; and travel diaries of Frances Robb during the 1920s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluds letters written to Robert Gilchrist Robb by residents of Williamsburg, including Janet Kimbrough, and material relating to the portrait of Robert Gilchrist Robb which hangs in the Special Collections Research Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Robert Hunt Land to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb, while Land was serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragments of three letters written in the same hand, perhaps by someone with the first or last name \"Randolph.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a diary of Frances Randolph Howard, letters of Robert Gilchrist Robb, and letters of J. Patton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters to Frances Randolph Howard from various family members including William Key Howard, Carrie Stuart Davis, Frances Upton, and Nina Stuart Smith; photographs of William Taylor Smith and Clara Haxall Randolph; and the roll book of Robert Gilchrist Robb while a chemistry professor at William and Mary from 1944 to 1945.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by William Key Howard to his sister Frances R. Howard. In the earliest letters William mentions school and alludes to his outdoor hobbies: buying fishing tackle and shotgun shells. The later letters were written from old family estate known as Gay Mont, in Rappahannock Academy, Virginia, which belonged to the Robb-Bernard branch of the family. Letters concering hunting, swimming, and horseback riding summers of 1921 and 1922. Mentions numerous cousins who visted Gay Mont. The final letters were written from Fredericksburg, Virginia where William attended Fredericksburg High School. Contains two postcards to William from his sister Frances.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from January 1923- May 1924 from William to his sister Frances while he attended Fredericksburg High School.  Also writes of getting a job with a liner, participation in military training exercises, as well as of target practice and drill. References to the building of the new armory.  Mentions a trip to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina- one letter written from Ft. Bragg tells sister he is now \"Pvt. W.K. Howard\"-it appears he was in the Army Reserve or the National Guard. Mentions his birthday and being promoted to sergeant.  Writes of football games, his Indian artifact collection, plans to visit Gay Mont and Canning, as well as his travelling by train to Kansas. Folder contains copy of letter from Fredericksburg High School to William's father concerning tuition and course schedule issues.  William also mentions his plans to attend V.P.I.  Photograph to sister of hazing tradition 'Rat Parade'.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances, from V.I.P. which express his dissatisfaction with the school. Feels he is wasting his time at the school, though he enjoys the athletics. His company won inter-company basketball and football championships, he took first place in shot put and second in javelin throwing. Mentions inspection of the school, which is labeled as 8th best in country, as well as a large fire near the school. Mentions letters of his guardian and financial advisor Mr. Young. Money from Mr. Young to buy Liberty Bond. He writes of going to see \"The Birth of a Nation.\"  He mentions Black people in the theater were clapping when the character Lynch  was carried through the street on the shoulders of celebrating Black people.  He writes that \"they had K.Ks. up in the gallery to keep the colored people quite [sic].\" William works on a ship as deck boy. Mentions going to see \"The Birth of a Nation\". Contains a letter from the Davey Tree Expert Company dated October 16, 1925 accepting William's acceptance into their tree surgeon program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Howard. Writes of his training with Davey Tree Expert Company in Kent, Ohio. Mentions learning knots and how to work with the ropes.  Sent to Pennsylvania for paid field work, as well as Maryland.  Worries about keeping this job for the long term. Considers selling his Virginia Excelsior Company stock- thinks he and sister will get $6,000 each. Mentions Mr. Young his guardian (perhaps the same person as Mr. Edgar M. Young president of the Virginia Excelsior Company) William's father is connected with this company. Sister is getting married to Robert Gilchrist Robb in June.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Robb (nee Howard). William is working temporarily as crew member on a ship-sails to Antwerp and Rotterdam.  Returns and resumes job with Davey Tree Expert Company.  Works near Baltimore Maryland.  Mentions lay offs by \"Ford\". Leaves job at Davey Tree Expert Company in September and works for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Corporation. Longs for the sea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William writes of having \"sent that lock of Boothe's [sic] hair that Grandma had to the Confederate Museum in Richmond.\" Mentions marital problems between his father and his second wife (Amy Margaret), she might move back to Texas. Mentions Frances and husband Robert Gilchrist Robb moving into the Paradise (Ludwell-Paradise) House on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. Longs for the sea, Frances worries about him when he sails. Desires to work on a ship through the Shipping Board. Some letters written while at sea on the SS Eastern Dawn which sailed to Europe including Antwerp. Contains photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William spends winter months working on steamships sailing for Europe, ports including Copenhagan and Finland.  Inquires if there is work for tree surgeons in the restoration of Williamsburg- later says doesn't think Williamsburg,and contracting company Underwood, can afford him. Mentions time spent at Fall Hill, and friend Fred Robinson. Many Letters written from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania where he is doing tree work. Mentions joining the Virginia National Guard-training at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Writes of opprotunity to partly own a gold mine with his friend Lynn-mine is located in Honduras. William and friend Robbie contemplate going there. Novmeber 3, he mentions stock market and the crash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions getting a job as a watchman at Kenmore (the one time home of George Washington's sister) which is being renovated.  Estate once belonged to William's grandfather William Key Howard Sr. as well as his Uncle Willam Key Howard Jr. He must keep watch at night- so he sleeps there.  Mentions cousin John Randolph died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of moving to Belle Hill, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Works for the National Park Service, specifically as park superintendant of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Includes Newspaper clippings and announcement of his marriage to Elizabeth Burke Crismond on March 18, 1937. Father dies, mentions funeral-he is executor of father's estate-details. Mentions housewarming for new home at the park for Branch Spalding (coordinating superintendent for Virginia Civil War parks).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions a war and a trip to the Baltic including stops at \"Danzig, Helsingford [sic] and Murmansk\". Mentions attending a fire training school and refers to a serious problem with Bob's (Robert Gilchrist Robb) eye.  Writes about his being discharged from the Virginia National Guard (?). Mentions plans for new job.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes he has volunteered for the Army, mentions that wife, Liz and their two daughters, will live in Spotsylvania Court House while he is away. Mentions renting his Belle Hill home to a soldier, and wants to rent the large house too. Mentions Army induction at Bowling Green and then moves to Camp Lee. He is stationed at Salem Airbase in Oregon for training. Mentions training experiences and his \"expert\" marksmanship. Believes he will be stationed behind the lines in war. Reassigned to \"Ono siding\" near San Bernardino, California. Describes location and his job there. Mentions plans to visit Los Angeles and Mexico, as well as visiting Hollywood where they made \"The Birth of a Nation\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes the he is applying for \"agriculturalist discharge\", his Belle Hill farm is no longer being cared for due to labor shortages, his request is denied.  Mentions concern for Robert Gilchrist Robb who recently fainted and requires bed rest.  Mentions the weather of San Bernardino.  Mentions his furlough being cancelled many times, wants to visit family in Virginia for Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of 700 Italian prisoners coming to a camp near San Bernardino, California, and their housing. Writes of camp life, mentions government-produced films being shown to the men. Mentions the weather of San Bernardino. References family in Virginia and responds to news from Frances, mentions his neice and her accomplishments. Included is a letter to William from Frances which mentions that her daughter will be attending Sweet Briar College. William mentions doings of other men like working at \"Kaisers steel mills\". Mentions his working extra hours for extra money for his upcoming furlough, received the good conduct metal which he finds ironic because he often breaks the rules. Includes pictures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of his quartermaster in San Bernardino, California being disbanded and of his transfer to Ft. Lewis near Seatle, Washington, expects to be assigned to medical duty. At Ft. Lewis he must go through basic training again and eight weeks of technical training. Describes his training experiences including a film entitled \"The Colored Soldier\", discusses race and the military. Anticipates his furlough at the end of training. Mentions many AWOLs and unit break ups- so the Army increased furloughs to raise moral. Mentions camp life at Ft. Lewis and his plans to visit Tokoma and Seattle, he prefers Seattle. Responds to news about his family and friends back home, mentions Robert Robb's illness many times, Robb had a blood clot and was bedridden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions Robert Robb's upcoming retirement from William and Mary at the end of the 1945-1946 school year.  William began working at Quantico in 1945, received his terminal leave pay in December 1947. Alludes to nephew (Robert Robb Jr.) joining the Army. Mentions attending the dedication of a Stuart tablet at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in King George County, Virginia. Writes of visits to Gay Mont and of planting rye at Belle Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb, mostly news about activities, health, and location of family members both immediate and distant. Mentions wife Liz being in Jamestown for Queen Elizabeth's visit. Gay Mont sold in 1958. Writes that he moved furniture and personal property: paintings (one by Sully sent to Frances). Appears upset about sale of Gay Mont. A 1958 map of Gay Mont included and hints that Pattons might buy Gay Mont soon. A few letters to Frances Robb from both William and his wife which mention France's daughter Fran having surgery twice. William works for the fire department at Quantico as well as at his farm Belle Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions helping clean up debris left by the fire at Gay Mont, alludes to the Pattons' intention to restore the house.  Mentions his daughters, Ellen and Cary, attending Mary Washington College, Ellen also spent some time at William and Mary.  Mentions having portraits restored one of Ellen and one of Alice.  Comments on the inauguration of John F. Kennedy which he viewed on television.  References situation in Berlin and advises sister to buy extra food each week to build a supply.  William has been copying Uncle William's Civil War diary which mentions the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg which he was able to avoid. Includes a copy of an article \"The Valleys of Virginia- The Rappahannock\" published in 1859- mentions Port Royal, Gay Mont, and slave working conditions in the region. Folder also includes a captioned photograph from a newsletter (?) commemorating William K. Howard's thirty years of services as a firefighter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions daughters Ellen and Cary were home for Christmas, going to Washington D.C. to visit Amy. Mamie had Christmas dinner with the Howards, Mamie injured herself after Christmas. Letter from Liz Howard to Frances about Christams, mentions John Glenn's flight on television and Bill's truck problems. Mentions snow storm of 15 inches and loss of power for 32 hours. Bill and Liz celebrated 25th wedding aniversary April 1962. Discusses school plans as well as work and summer plans for Cary and Ellen. Eugenia may have had a stroke 1962. Mentions a midnight Christmas service at St. George. Amy fell down stairs and broke her pelvis. Saw the Mona Lisa in Washington D.C. Mentions the marriage of Mr. Brigham to a Spencer from Williamsburg. Mentions that Jim will be out of the service in 1963. Writes of farm and animal life. Liz receives Mama's diamond. Mentions Belle Hill's estate price. Discusses Amy's will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, cards, and newspaper clippings to Frances Robb (Mrs. R.G. Robb). Bill retired his daughter Cary moved to Fairfax. Mentions Ellen and Cary's affairs. Cary and Ellen drive to Lake Tahoe. Ford Motor Company is interested in Freedom Hill. Bill and Liz celebrate their 29th anniversary. Mentions some purchases from Miller and Rhoads. Cary goes to Athens, Georgia mentions KKK trials. Mentions Bill and Lem Houston's march on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bill in court as witness about over assesment. William dies February 10, 1898. Manzie dies October 20, 1913- letters from Hollywood grave stones. Thank-you note from Liz. Mentions a trip to Montross. Thank-you letter for tulips. Mentions a 50 cent pieces Bobby is saving and plans of Ellen and Patti's trip to Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and cards from Bill and Liz to sister Frances Robb. Mentions affairs of Mamie, her moving, the sale of her house to Bill, her health, and estate. Writes of Clara and her health, operation, and later her death. Affairs of Cary and Ellen, schooling, travels, and their weddings. Writes on politics and the meeting of the Eight District of Legion. Mentions some dental problems, and that Olive Swanson from LaVere died. Also mentions Olive's sisters Blanche and Lousie Cassell and also mentions a geneology booklet about the Tuckahoe Randolphs being recently acquired. Writes of visiting Tuckahoe and Richmond with Buff and Sally. Nora is in hospital. Mincie Polock died and Bill died. Liz and Dorothy Harris visit Prince William, Manassas. Mentions a painting by Sully in Governor's Mansion. Bill elected to be Key Man for coming year. Bill buys a new car, went to Gay Mont and mentions book named Golden Age of Piracy. Discusses Christmas plans and gifts. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Discusses Belle Hill afairs such as hunting, dogs, and fuel oil as well as of Liz's new teaching job. Includes a typed copy of the History and Life of Thomas Mann Randolph and documentation of Gilchrist from the Clan Macfarlane. Columbia in hospital. Mentions Tides Inn visit to Shirley and Berkely Plantations. Bill still member of American Legion. Visits with family at Gay Mont. Mentions chromolithographs. Mentions Chestertown and Cambridge on the Eastern Shore where he worked. Liz injured herself. Writes of politics. Flower delivery for Frances. Bill giving up farming plans to rent Camden farm to Piedmont Fertilizer. Piedmont affairs. Mentions the weather, flooding and Paul Karsten's health. Writes of people in Florida. Writes of Bill and Buff's relationship and outings. Mentions \"We Began At Jamestown\" and party at Prospect Hill. Talks of high school reunion and John Billingsley's face lift. Mentions visit of Newt Hill and Clara Louise and daughter. Writes of hunting dogs and hunting. Mentions mulitple visits and socials with different persons. Bill is a grandpa and in 69 years old. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Bear sighting at Gay Mont. Mentions Cary, Fritz, and Ashley's travels. Mentions weather. Writes of dinner parties and guests. Plans for 50th high school reunion. Mentions photographs of John Eager's medal. Bill member of 32nd degree in Scottish RIte of Masonry in Richmond, initiated into Shriners. Includes copy of parole document from National Archives from Headquarters Department of Virginia 1865 William Howard as prisoner of war 4th Virginia Calvary, permission to go home to Maryland. Bill to be grandpa in May. Mentions multiple wedding anniversaries, weddings, and events of friends. Discusses possible oil shortages soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Information on Cary, Fritz, and family. Writes about social visits from various family members. Bear sightings at Gay Mont. Writes of Washington D.C. and traffic issues as well as archival work. Includes copies: Philip L. Robb, William R. Bernard of Co.B 9th Virginia Calvary, (Johnson's Regiment). Mentions Ellen and Jim as well as Columbia's health improving. Writes of Tom's auto accident at Gay Mont and mentions Brown's Motel in Port Royal. Writes of Joe Holloway's funeral and events. Contains get well cards to Frances. Mentions hunting on his property and deer season. Contains 3 photographs of Ashley and Key. Mentions a brass Randolph paper clip and a New Year party at Propect Hill. Mentions the Hoyt's party and health. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Mentions Belle Hill and farm affairs. Writes of various persons being in the hospital. Mentions two historians from Park Services and a PhD visiting him to talk about Chatham, inquired of pictures, maps, and events. Writes of the geneology of the Virginian Howards and the Maryland Howards as well as an article Cary wrote. Writes of Liz's biopsy. Mentions Ellen's visit and travels. Discusses A.P.V.A. deal and people. Mentions Gay Mont, Mount Zion, a wedding at Vanters, Tappahannock, Mulberry Place, the Eupatorium Incarnatu, Kenmore, Woodlawn, and Bowling Green. Mentions Howard McHenry, Paul Karsten and his family, Frances Patton, the Boddies, Eleanor Iglehart, granddaughter Ashley, Mrs. Briggs, Charles and Madge Marshell, the Holmes, Katherine Yerby, and states that Mary Stevenson and John Billingsly died. Writes often of dogs and some of politics. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of fuel oil and prices. Mentions the weather and writes often of the dogs. Visits of family, Ellen, Liz, Cary, and grandchildren. Writes about historians inquiring about Chatham. Discussess geneological matters. Bill plants 7,00 pines on property-cost sharing-writes of trees. Mentions John and Peg Russell, Mary Coleman, Jim, David Holmes, Thomas and Lawson Waring, Dr. McFarland, Dorothy and Joe Harris, Bob Krick, the Caroline Historical Society, Taylor Turner, Dorothy Peters, Sally Scott Norris, Wallace Yerby, Forrest Dickinson, and Marge Arnold. Plans of going to Europe. Also mentions Napels Florida, St. Asaphs, Bowling Green, Tuckahoe, Belle Hill, Stratford, Camden, Spotsylvania, St. Peters, New Salem Church, Gay Mont, Vanters, and Fredericksburg. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Frances Robb is in the hospital. Writes of weather-mentions hang up dead water snake so rain would come. Writes of dogs and new dog. Mentions gardening and the Rappahannock Valley Garden Club. Writes of many social visits and church services. Mentions Lucille Reilly, John Ballentine, Virginius Dabney's history book, the Yerby's and the Wallace's, Rosalie, Ellen and Columbia, the Quarles, Raplph Robertsons, Alice Turner. Writes of Bowling Green, Wynnewood Pennsylvania, Gay Mont, Port Royal, Goldenvale Creek, Gouldman Dam. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Includes photograph of Lucy Anne Patterson \"Mamseys\" Mother. Mentions the weather. Writes of Ellen and Cary and their plans and travels. Mentions the dogs. Purchase of brick lined stove. Mentions Thanksgiving plans with family. Writes of various social visits and parties. Mentions Bob Hicks, Dorothy Harris, Ralph Fall, the Howards, the Russells and the Carters, Sally Norris Scott, and Rosalie Taylor, as well as Spring Grove, Bowling Green, Gay Mont and Snow Creek, the Crowningshield Building at Kenmore, and the Happy Clam. Writes of Columbus day being celebrated on the 10th not the 12th. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of Frances' dinner party and of the stone from James H. Byran Memorials of Harrisonburg. John A. Weaver is their Fredericksburg representative. Stone brought to Gay Mont-writes of mud and trouble with delivery. Bill's cousin Key died. Frances is in the hospital, plans to return home on her birthday. Liz thanks Fran for sending checks. Mentions settling France's estate. Description of Frances. Liz works at the hospital. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb, Letters of Jim, Meem and Patty. Bill thanks Fran and Bob for presents. Mentions New Year party at the Hoyt's and travels through Castles. Fran treated Jim to lunch, Fran to stay with either Cary or Jim. Letter to Meem and Patty talks about power lines and the APVA. Mentions Joanna Catron the curator at \"Belmont\", Anita Pratt, Madell family and Beverley, Taylor Turner's death, Louis Rollins, Jayne Harding, the Cheesmans, Beverley Pratt, Julian Hudson, the Bowens and Marjorie Strother, Jeff Gilbert, the Erhards. Also mentions the DMA picnic at Berry Plain. Mentions placing flags at grave sites. Writes of wedding plans. Mentions the Bowens making \"Oaken Brow\" into a spinach farm. Mentions Gay Mont, Bridgeville, Ghelarduccis and surrounding street names. Includes a page from a diary, and writes of viewing many photographs. Mentions various names of streets and locations. (A more detailed description included in folder).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes\"'calling card, brownley's, Washington, DC, message from Bill\". Index card with names of William Key Howard to sister Frances R.H. Robb, Frances Lightfoot Robb and wife, Elizabeth Crismond Howard. Index card from Elizabeth Crismond Howard to sister in law Frances Robb. Very small postcard from Smith Memorial, Philadelphia to Miss F.R. Howard in Washington DC. Postcard from Bill with photograph of Tsukuba. Postcards from Bill to F.R. Howard, postcard to Mrs. R.G. Robb, all with various images. As well as undated items in Howards-cards and letters folder. (A more detailed description located in folder.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne 8\" x 10\" black and white photograph of Eugenia van Dyke Robb that was used for a story published by the Baltimore Sun in 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains letters, postcards, photographs, and other material related to the Robb-Bernard family. Most of the material relates to the family of Frances Robb. Some of the correspondents in the letters include Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., Frances Randolph Howard, and other members of the Howard family. 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(later renamed \"Gay Mont\") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal documents and letters of John Taylor of Caroline. Of special interest are the diaries of Eugenia D. Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Germany and Japan during and after World War II (1999.56A)."," Additions include other material on the Robb, Bernard, Upton and Hipkins families from the 19th century through the 20th century."," Check the Finding Aid/Inventory and the PDF Inventory for descriptions and/or folder lists of original accession and all additions.","Original Accession.","D. Wilkie, Kensington [London], to James Wilson Croker. Accepts membership in club and returns list as reqested.","Includes information about the Robb-Bernard Family Papers and information about the Robb-Bernard family. Also includes various items within the Robb-Bernard Family Papers.","The Family of William \u0026 Elizabeth Bolling Robertson by James Samuel Patton - printed","\"The Family of William Robertson and his wife Elizabeth Bolling\" - mimeographed","Copies of Bible Records: 1. William and Elizabeth Bolling Robertson 2. Philip and Mary Warner Lewis Lightfoot 3. James and Lucy Waring Robb","John H. Bernard's Commission as Captain in the Virginia militia, May 20, 1815","Prayer by [John H. Bernard], [circa 1855], copied by [Helen S. Bernard]","\"John Hipkins, Merchant, Of Port Royal, Virginia\" - typed","Legal papers relating to the settlement of the estate of John Hipkins.  Inventories, law suits, and accounts between Elizabeth Hipkins, John H. Bernard, and others and William Bernard, Executor.  1 October 1801 - 20 November 1816.  (21 items)","Includes 13 items of Elizabeth Hipkins; 3 items of John Hipkins; and 11 items of John H. Bernard.","Detailed inventories, accounts, and legacies of Elizabeth Hipkins' estate. March 13, 1804 - November 23, 1829. (13 items).","John Hipkins' documents [?]. October 1802 - August 14, 1804. (3 items).","John H. Bernard indenture. July 10, 1804. (1 item).","John H. Bernard documents regarding the tract of land in Richmond County called \"Folly.\" April 3, 1818 - 1827[?]. (4 items).","John H. Bernard indentures regarding [Townfield] land in Caroline County, near Port Royal. July 3, 1818 and January 1, 1819. (2 items).","John H. Bernard and others indentures, lands in Caroline County, November 14, 1816; May2, 1817 \"Westerton\"; May 26, 1819 Port Royal; and June 15, 1831 Port Royal. (4 items).","Elizabeth Hipkins' mortgage book.  23 July 1808 - June 1830.  (1 item).","Ledger - accounts. First half of 1800s. (1 item).","Includes legal papers of William Bernard and John H. Bernard's notes, bills, receipts, etc.","Includes the notes, bills, receipts, accounts, and statements of John H. Bernard.  Also, the legal paper, receipts, and bills of William Bernard.","John H. Bernard notes, bills, receipts, accounts, statements. January 9, 1812 - May 2, 1818. (115 items).","William Bernard legal papers - receipts and bills. February 17, 181[3] - November 12, 1853. (18 items). (For more letters of William Bernard see business correspondence of John H. Bernard).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1818. (50 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1819. (86 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1820 (44 items); 1821 (17 items); 1822 (8 items); 1823 (15 items); 1824 (58 items); 1825 (52 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1826 (39 items); 1827 (24 items); 1828 (34 items); 1829 (48 items); 1830 (88 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.  1831 (72 items); 1832 (83 items); 1833 (81 items).  Gay Bernard accounts, 1832-1836 (5 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1834 (62 items); 1835 (32 items); 1836 (39 items); 1837 (52 items); 1838 (74 items); 1839 (36 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1840 (9 items); 1841 (42 items); 1842 (53 items); 1843 (16 items); 1844 (14 items); 1845 (50 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1846 (45 items); 1847 (43 items); 1848 (29 items); 1849 (40 items).","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc. 1850 (27 items); 1851 (54 items); 1852 including Arkansas land taxes (55 items); 1853 (59 items); 1854 (48 items); 1855 (22 items).","John H. Bernard and William R. Bernard bills, receipts and notes, etc. 1855-1860.","John H. Bernard accounts with William S. Quisenberry. 1831-1835.","John H. Bernard accounts with James Jackson. 1854 and 1857.","John H. Bernard accounts with William Farinholt. 1836-1839.","John H. Bernard accounts with William R. Care. 1834-1840.","John H. Bernard accounts, bills and receipts with William Gray and Company, Port Royal, Virginia. 1811-1839.","John H. Bernard Alabama Plantation Accounts. 1837-1852. Green County, Alabama.","John H. Bernard notes, bills and receipts, etc.. Dates unknown. (121 itmes).","John H. Bernard's receipt of the return of a runaway slave. March 15, 1834. (1 item).","Includes the will and bank books of John H. Bernard; legacies of Jane Gay Bernard; a copy of Robert G. Robb's will; and 1 document of Helen S. Robb.","John H. Bernard bank books. 1839-1845. (2 items).","John H. Bernard's will. 1841.","Jane Gay Bernard legacies. Unsigned, undated. [She died July 1852].","Copy of Robert G. Robb's will, December 13, 1852, and a statement to its validity.","Document of Helen S. Robb, October 5, 1881, directing that her husband, Philip L. Robb, shall manage her property.","Miscellaneous papers, 1800-1830.","John H. Bernard. 624 Checks. April 3, 1816 - November 20, 1854.","John H. Bernard and Family - scraps, visiting cards, envelopes.","13 items of Helen S. Robb and 1 pencil sketch.","Helen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) Confederate bonds. (3 items).","Helen S. Robb (Mrs. P.L. Robb) settlements, accounts, bills and envelopes. 1859-1898. (10 items).","Pencil sketch. Dated 18 May [?]. (1 item).","Includes notebook of Helen S. Robb and diary of Helen Struan Bernard.","Helen S. Robb notebook containing accounts, receipts, poetry, etc. Late 19th century.","Unbound diary of Helen Struan Bernard [Mrs. P.L. Robb], 1848-1862.","Includes publications, extracts from publications, a report card, advertisments, and a photograph of the tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs.","Extracts from papers and magazines.","Volume 1, number 1, Southern Temperance Star, with account of October 1834 meeting of the Virginia State Temperance Society, January 1835.","Waldie's Select Circulating Library, including Part I, number 1, 1 January 1835.  8 different issues, 1835 and 1836.","Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Volume XCVIII, Number 586, Philadelphia, April 1879.  1 copy.","A Glance At Current American History by an Ex-Confederate, 1897.","Extracts from daily papers. Advertising matter. Undated and September 15, 1857.","Report card from B.B. Minor's school for young ladies for Helen S. Bernard dated for Quarter ending 31 October 1850. School regulations and costs are on the reverse side dated 23 September 1850.","Broadsides, \"Fenton's Patent Flint Enamel Ware,\" Patent secured November 27, 1849. 2 copies. Also, \"Prospect House and Terrace Garden, Table Rock, Canada West.\" undated.","Pamphlet, \"Parcel Post Information.\" undated.","Advertisements for carriages sent to Helen S. Robb, Port Royal, Virginia, May 25, 1899, from George Gravatt, Carriage Manufacturer, Federicksburg, Virginia.","Illustrative materials. (4 items).","Incomplete publication. Chapter II and III: \"Latitude, Longitude, and Time\" and \"The Moon\", also \"The Solar System.\"","Magazine photograph of Gay Mount, about 1920.","Photograph of tombstone of John Bolling of Cobbs, great grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. Among other names on the tombstone is that of Wyndham Robertson, Governor of Virginia. (Photograph is mounted and is torn in half).","Manuscript poems. This group of papers consists of original poems [\"poetical, political prophetical effusions\"] by Jane Gay Bernard. Some responses from her friends are also included. Predominantly undated.","Unbound manuscript diary. This group of papers consists of sporadic entries in a diary of Jane Gay Robertson [wife of John Hipkins Bernard] through the years 1825-1849.","Indentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1665-1814.","Indentures, deeds, etc. Caroline County, Virginia. 1736-1805.","Includes bills of sale, documents, letters, a bond, and an unidentified manuscript.","Bills of sale of slaves. 1816-1849.","Documents and letters regarding land. 1715-1819.","Bond. 1826.","Unidentified manuscript.","Includes indentures and a note.","Indentures. 1787 and 1801.","Note. 1792.","Includes indentures, certificates, deeds, terms of agreement, and surveys.","Indentures. 1756-1810.","Certificates. 1804.","Deeds. 1743-1805.","Terms of agreement. 1810.","Surveys. 1741-1796.","John Taylor of Caroline County. Documents and correspondence. 1800-1824. (Materals regarding John H. Bernard and John Hipkins).","Philip Lightfoot notes, accounts, receipts, etc. 1810-1837. (19 items).","Includes notes and receipts of Robert G. Robb and repayment of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.","Robert G. Robb notes and receipts. 1841-1842. (5 items).","Repayment in 1924 of Commander Robb's salary confiscated by the U.S. Navy in 1861.","Includes a boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller; a proclamation by R[obert] E. Lee; and Confederate secret signals.","Boundary line agreement between John Taylor and James Miller, September 2, 1806. (1 item).","Proclamation to People of Maryland by R[obert] E. Lee. 1863. Copy. (1 item).","Confederate secret signals along the Rappahannock River. [1863?]. (2 items).","Miscellaneous accounts and receipts. 1835-1954. (9 items).","Record Book of the Trustees of Rappahannock Academy. 1810-1822.","Correspondence. March 5, 1791 - August 3, 1836. Including: Letter from Wyndam Robertson, February 25, 1817. Senator W.C. Rives' letter on his senate speech regarding nullification, March 7, 1833. Letter from James Barbour, May 12, 1834. Letter on land speculation, June 8, 1834, and opportunities in Alabama. Letter on land speculation in Arkansas and Louisiana, November 4, 1835. Letter on land speculation in Texas, and predicting defeat of the Mexican army by fall, August 3, 1836.","Correspondence, January 17, 1837 - November 10, 1841. Including: John Bradshaw, Middlebury College graduate, letter applying for teaching position in John H. Bernard's academy, May 13, 1841. Letters to and from John H. Bernard, his agents, lawyers, overseers, primarily relating to his Alabama, Arkansas, and Texan lands, 1837-1841.","Correspondence. March 1, 1842 - November 20, 1843. Including: Letters to and from John H. Bernard regarding his Arkansas, Alabama, and Texan lands, 1842-1843. Printed copy of John C. Calhoun's senate speech on the treaty of Washington, August 1842.","Correspondence March 9, 1844 - December 28, 1849. Including: Inventory of slaves, stock, tools, and acres planted on Bernard's Greene County, Alabama plantation, March 18, 1844. Letter commenting on migration from Arkansas to Texas, California, and Mexico, January 17, 1845. Letter from General Leslie Combs of Kentucky, November 12, 1845. J.H. Bernard's letter of advice to his son in college, February 15, 1846. Letter on religion and the way to salvation, September 27, 1846. Letter on social life, theatre, balls, weddings in Richmond, March 1847. Broadside of Fredericksburg Female Seminary, August 6, 1849.","Correspondence. 1850 - October 20, 1861. Including: Letter, January 20, 1851, regarding burning of St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans at time of Jenny Lind's visit. Trip to Vicksburg and up the Yazoo River to new plantation, reception, and life on the plantation from G.F.W., December 13, 1860. Letter from G.F.W. on national crisis, secession, and plantation plans, January 21, 1861.","Correspondence. June 18, 1862 - December 2, 1870. Including: Family letters to and from the Robbs at Gay Mont and their relatives and friends, January 1863.","Correspondence. February 9, 1871 - March 29, 1887.","Correspondence. April 4, 1887 - December 22, 1889. Including: Family letters to and from friends in Washington, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, April 1887.","Correspondence. January 4, 1890 - June 30, 1893. Including: Letter from A.H.A. Bernard on family genealogy, dining with Thomas Jefferson, and tutoring James Monrow, January 1891. Letter on exams at [Virginia Polytechnic Institute], February 1, 1891. Letters from \"Robin\" Robert G. Robb at William and Mary, December 3, 1891; January 8, 1892; April 17, 1892; November 20, 1892; December 11, 1892; March 20, 1893; March 26, 1893; May 10, 1893; May 28, 1893; and June 4, 1893. Letter to Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, January 9, 1892. Letter on commencement at Brown University and travel in New England, June 30, 1893.","Correspondence. July 10, 1893 - February 1897. Including: Robert G. Robb letters from the University of Virginia, September 19, 1893; February 14, 1894; April 15, 1894; April 22, 1894; May 6, 1894; October 3, 1894; October 7, 1894; October 28, 1894; November 4, 1894; November 18, 1894; November 25, 1894; January 13, 1895; February 10, 1895; October 1895; October 20, 1895; October 27, 1895; January 26, 1896; January 24, 1897.","Correspondence. July 1897 - September 11, 1901. Including: Letters regarding Robert G. Robb's appointment to the chair of Mathematics in the Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama, July and August 1891. Letter of Robert G. Robb at the University of Virginia, July 22, 1900.","Correspondence, publications, bills, receipts, etc. September 17, 1907 - May 18, 1936 and undated.","Loose envelopes and cards","2 empty portfolios","Diary of William Robb Bernard, 1870-1875. Jane Gay Robertson, 1812 memo book.","Xerox copy of typescript of letters in the form of a journal. John Hipkins Bernard's European Journey, 1818-1819 with Powhatan Robertson's.","Vols. 3 and 4 of Powhatan Robertson's European tour, 1818-1819. Manuscript diaries.","Copies of transcribed letters written by Bernard Robb to his family in \"Gay Mont\" Virginia while he was a student at the College of William and Mary. Two 1893 letters from his mother, Helen S. Bernard Robb, to her son, Robert G. Robb. WHRA. 1 folder.","The collection is mainly comprised of correspondence from the various Robbs and Bernards, as well as their relations the Uptons, who were originally from southern Maine. As well as the correspondence, there are also a few other items, such as Frances Upton's journal from a family trip to Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, between July 4 and August 9, 1928. Other items of interest are letters from a Netherlands woman named Mary to Frances Upton immediately following World War II (1945-1955,) along with letters home from Robert Upton during World War II","Twentieth-century Robb and Upton (maiden name of Mrs. Patton) family papers. List of dates of correspondence and names of correspondants filed at beginning of box.","Two letters of Sally Tompkins to Helen Robb, ca. 1878, and Dr. Martin Pickett Scott to his wife, 12 April 1879. 1878-1879.","Notebook of reminscences by Frances Robb's father, former professor of Chemistry, concerning Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. 1 folder.","Three letters to Frances Robb (Mrs. Robert G. Robb) in 1943 and 1951; one letter to Gay Robertson from Powhatan Robertson dated April 27, 1876 and one letter from Frances Robb to Mrs. Geratt, about 1920. 1 folder.","Diary and letters of Eugenia Robb from occupied Japan while Eugenia Robb was serving with the American Red Cross. Typescripts. Also a few letters from Italy. Detailed informative letters and diary. Original to come by bequest. 1945-47.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Diary of Eugenia van Dyke Robb describing her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan while under the occupation of the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescript of Manuscript.","Letters written home by Eugenia van Dyke Robb defining her work with the American Red Cross during her stay in the Philippines and Japan with the Allied Occupation Forces, 1945-1947. Typescripts of autograph letters signed. (Originals of 36 letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 4.)","Three letters written by Eugenia van Dyke Robb when she was working for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, 1951-1953. Typescripts of autograph letters signed.","21 photographs taken by and of Eugenia van Dyke Robb in the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt.  Photographs.","Typescript of selected poems of Helen Struan Robb of \"Gay Mont\" aunt of the donor. Poem by donor's father Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.","Five poems by Helen Struan Robb, aunt of Eugenia Robb. The poems are entitled \"Beyond\", \"Absence\", \"To the Wood Robin\", \"Night Song\", and \"Love's Dawn\".","Two poems by Philip Lightfoot Robb, one entitled \"Sunbeam\" written to his daughter Eugenia Robb and the other entitled \"A Memory, the Homeward Path\" written about his beloved home \"Gaymont.\"","\"Moonlight,\" a poem by Eugenia Robb was written in Sendai, Japan in July 1946.","Typescript of diary and 5 letters of Eugenia Robb, 1947, during her assignment with the American Red Cross in Stuttgart, Germany. Also, 8 photographs of scenes in Germany. (Originals of six letters from *2000.47 added to Folder 2.) 3 folders.","Diaries, one scrapbook and letters of Eugenia Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Japan, Philippines, and Germany. Letters from Rome, Italy, 1951-1953. Includes items labeled MsV 1, 2, 3 and 4. 4 folders. 36 original letters from this accession were added to folder 4 of Acc. 1999.34. 6 original letters from this accession were added to folder 2 of Acc. 1999.56A.","5 items relating to Eugenia Robb's stay in Japan including a map tracing her sea voyage from Washington, D.C. to the Philippine Islands in December, 1945; her article about a well known Japanese flower arranger, the first Japanese brochure published after the war, two poems written by her father, Philip Lightfoot Robb, Jr.; and one poem written by herself.","Letters of principally Philip Lightfoot Robb, 1892-1896, while attending Cleveland High School in Fauquier County, Virginia.","Memorandum, 26 October 1932, between R. G. Robb and others to receive heat from the College of William and Mary (includes letter, 1937, and resolutions, 1937, of the Board of Visitors); letter, 14 March 1944, of G. E. Meanley to members of the Fort Magruder Fishing Club; pages from the Bulletin of the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society which contains an article (March 1932, Vol. IX, No. 6) of R. G. Robb \"Development of the Department of Chemistry at the College of William and Mary\" and appointment, 1930, of Robert Gilchrist Robb as Major in the Chemical Warfare Service (reserves). 1 folder. Fort Magruder Fishing Club letter transferred to Acc. 2002.46 Fort Magruder Fishing Club Papers.","Eugenia Robb's travel journal to Spain during the summer of 1952 and Philip L. Robb's song \"Tis Cupid wires my Heart to You.\"","Class of June 1948, Baltimore City College, Banquet Program honoring Phillip L. Robb, Teacher and Department Head of Chemistry, 1901-1948, with newspaper clipping concerning his retirement; certificate of distinction awarded to Philip L. Robb, June 7,1893, from Cleveland High School; May 1980 issue of Good Reading, including an article by Eugenia Van Dyke Robb entitled \"Picasso of the Flowers.\" 1 folder.","Large collection of papers, books and more given by James S. Patton.","Scrapbook about \"Welcum Hinges\" a book written by Bernard Robb. Contains printed articles and reviews. Photograph of portrait of John Hipkins Bernard. Photographs of Sutton Hall and St. Bartholomew's Church. Photograph of John Bernard Robb. Copy of 1857 pages from diary of Helen S. Bernard of \"Gay Mont,\" Caroline County, Virginia. Copies of correspondence of the Robb and Bernard Families from William and Mary Collection, 1857-1874. Copy of newspaper announcement of the marriage of Frederick Smith-Shenstone on February 6, 1873. Correspondence between John Sclater of London with James S. Patton and between East Sussex County Records Office and James S. Patton about Sutton Hall visit and genealogy. 1995. Portion of book written by John Sclater on the Sclater Family. Maps showing Sutton Hall area.","Gaymont Collection, a gift from APVA. Not yet processed. June 2013 Architectural Digest, p. 150, \"American Revival\" by Julia Reed about the history and restoration of Gay Mont added by staff in 2013. Includes several nineteenth-century cased photographs and early twentieth-century photographs.","William and Mary Senior Honor Thesis, April 2001, \"A Palace Called Beautiful, Virginia Women, The Confederacy and the Transmission of Southern Culture\" by Amanda Elizabeth Creekman.","Correspondence with A. Randolph Howard and the Navy Department about securing a memento of the Battleship Richmond for Mrs. William Augustine Smith who christened the Richmond when she was launched in 1860. Mrs. Smith was Harriett Field Robb, the daughter of Captain Robert Gilchrist Robb, U.S.N. and at that tiime, Commander of the Norfolk, Virginia Navy Yard.  Allen Randolph Howard was married to Frances Lightfoot Smith, the daughter of Mrs. William Augustine Smith.","Consist of war ration books for member of the Robb family, as well as Robert J. (Bobby) Robb's Matthew Whaley High School yearbooks, 1948-1950. Yearbooks contain many personalized dedications.","For members of the Robb family of Williamsburg, Va.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Belonging to Robert J. Robb.","Photograph, ca. 1904, of a painting of Frances Randolph (Howard) Robb (b. 1894) at the age of 10. 1 folder.","Included are war ration books for the Robb family, an information sheet concerning registration for war ration books, as well as a tag for a shipment from Scotland imprinted with a Williamsburg business name: \"Cogar, Lewis and Geiger, Inc., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.\" 1 folder.","Primarily letters, 1944-1964, written by Earl Gregg Swem to Robert Robb and Frances Robb.  Also contains clippings related to Earl Gregg Swem, a card from John Stewart Bryan, and an invitation to dinner from John Stewart Bryan.","Contains letters, 1892, from Robert Gilchrist Robb to his mother and to Bernard Robb. There are also programs, 1944, from Bruton Parish Church.  1 folder.","Letters, 1939-1945, from Robert Hunt Land, College of William and Mary librarian, to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb. Land primarily wrote these letters while on the USS Brooklyn during World War II.  3 folders.","Contains letters, 1949-1952, written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb to her son, Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., while he was serving in the Army.  3 folders.","Letters addressed to members of the Robb family. Includes one letter, 1944 from a religious organization in Alaska, addressed to Robert Gilchrist Robb, to which the Robb family seemed to donate. There is also a Christmas card, 1992, addressed to Frances Robb.","Includes the baptismal record and accompanying letter from W.A.R. Goodwin of Frances Robb, a map of Cheatham Annex, a note written by Frances Randolph Howard Robb, and a booklet published by John Garland Pollard entitled \"A Connotary: Definitions not Found in Dictionaries.\"","Contains photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, and other material relating to the Robb and Bernard Families. The bulk of the accession consists of photographs and scrapbooks of family members, reunions, and family visits. Also included in the collection are Bruton Parish Church newsletters, material related to the Nicolas Mortiau Descendants Association; and travel diaries of Frances Robb during the 1920s.","Includs letters written to Robert Gilchrist Robb by residents of Williamsburg, including Janet Kimbrough, and material relating to the portrait of Robert Gilchrist Robb which hangs in the Special Collections Research Center.","Letters from Robert Hunt Land to Frances Randolph Howard Robb, wife of William and Mary Professor of Chemistry Robert Gilchrist Robb, while Land was serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II.","Fragments of three letters written in the same hand, perhaps by someone with the first or last name \"Randolph.\"","Includes a diary of Frances Randolph Howard, letters of Robert Gilchrist Robb, and letters of J. Patton.","Contains letters to Frances Randolph Howard from various family members including William Key Howard, Carrie Stuart Davis, Frances Upton, and Nina Stuart Smith; photographs of William Taylor Smith and Clara Haxall Randolph; and the roll book of Robert Gilchrist Robb while a chemistry professor at William and Mary from 1944 to 1945.","Letters written by William Key Howard to his sister Frances R. Howard. In the earliest letters William mentions school and alludes to his outdoor hobbies: buying fishing tackle and shotgun shells. The later letters were written from old family estate known as Gay Mont, in Rappahannock Academy, Virginia, which belonged to the Robb-Bernard branch of the family. Letters concering hunting, swimming, and horseback riding summers of 1921 and 1922. Mentions numerous cousins who visted Gay Mont. The final letters were written from Fredericksburg, Virginia where William attended Fredericksburg High School. Contains two postcards to William from his sister Frances.","Letters from January 1923- May 1924 from William to his sister Frances while he attended Fredericksburg High School.  Also writes of getting a job with a liner, participation in military training exercises, as well as of target practice and drill. References to the building of the new armory.  Mentions a trip to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina- one letter written from Ft. Bragg tells sister he is now \"Pvt. W.K. Howard\"-it appears he was in the Army Reserve or the National Guard. Mentions his birthday and being promoted to sergeant.  Writes of football games, his Indian artifact collection, plans to visit Gay Mont and Canning, as well as his travelling by train to Kansas. Folder contains copy of letter from Fredericksburg High School to William's father concerning tuition and course schedule issues.  William also mentions his plans to attend V.P.I.  Photograph to sister of hazing tradition 'Rat Parade'.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances, from V.I.P. which express his dissatisfaction with the school. Feels he is wasting his time at the school, though he enjoys the athletics. His company won inter-company basketball and football championships, he took first place in shot put and second in javelin throwing. Mentions inspection of the school, which is labeled as 8th best in country, as well as a large fire near the school. Mentions letters of his guardian and financial advisor Mr. Young. Money from Mr. Young to buy Liberty Bond. He writes of going to see \"The Birth of a Nation.\"  He mentions Black people in the theater were clapping when the character Lynch  was carried through the street on the shoulders of celebrating Black people.  He writes that \"they had K.Ks. up in the gallery to keep the colored people quite [sic].\" William works on a ship as deck boy. Mentions going to see \"The Birth of a Nation\". Contains a letter from the Davey Tree Expert Company dated October 16, 1925 accepting William's acceptance into their tree surgeon program.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Howard. Writes of his training with Davey Tree Expert Company in Kent, Ohio. Mentions learning knots and how to work with the ropes.  Sent to Pennsylvania for paid field work, as well as Maryland.  Worries about keeping this job for the long term. Considers selling his Virginia Excelsior Company stock- thinks he and sister will get $6,000 each. Mentions Mr. Young his guardian (perhaps the same person as Mr. Edgar M. Young president of the Virginia Excelsior Company) William's father is connected with this company. Sister is getting married to Robert Gilchrist Robb in June.","Letters from William Key Howard to his sister Frances Robb (nee Howard). William is working temporarily as crew member on a ship-sails to Antwerp and Rotterdam.  Returns and resumes job with Davey Tree Expert Company.  Works near Baltimore Maryland.  Mentions lay offs by \"Ford\". Leaves job at Davey Tree Expert Company in September and works for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Corporation. Longs for the sea.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William writes of having \"sent that lock of Boothe's [sic] hair that Grandma had to the Confederate Museum in Richmond.\" Mentions marital problems between his father and his second wife (Amy Margaret), she might move back to Texas. Mentions Frances and husband Robert Gilchrist Robb moving into the Paradise (Ludwell-Paradise) House on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. Longs for the sea, Frances worries about him when he sails. Desires to work on a ship through the Shipping Board. Some letters written while at sea on the SS Eastern Dawn which sailed to Europe including Antwerp. Contains photographs.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. William spends winter months working on steamships sailing for Europe, ports including Copenhagan and Finland.  Inquires if there is work for tree surgeons in the restoration of Williamsburg- later says doesn't think Williamsburg,and contracting company Underwood, can afford him. Mentions time spent at Fall Hill, and friend Fred Robinson. Many Letters written from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania where he is doing tree work. Mentions joining the Virginia National Guard-training at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Writes of opprotunity to partly own a gold mine with his friend Lynn-mine is located in Honduras. William and friend Robbie contemplate going there. Novmeber 3, he mentions stock market and the crash.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions getting a job as a watchman at Kenmore (the one time home of George Washington's sister) which is being renovated.  Estate once belonged to William's grandfather William Key Howard Sr. as well as his Uncle Willam Key Howard Jr. He must keep watch at night- so he sleeps there.  Mentions cousin John Randolph died.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of moving to Belle Hill, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Works for the National Park Service, specifically as park superintendant of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Includes Newspaper clippings and announcement of his marriage to Elizabeth Burke Crismond on March 18, 1937. Father dies, mentions funeral-he is executor of father's estate-details. Mentions housewarming for new home at the park for Branch Spalding (coordinating superintendent for Virginia Civil War parks).","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions a war and a trip to the Baltic including stops at \"Danzig, Helsingford [sic] and Murmansk\". Mentions attending a fire training school and refers to a serious problem with Bob's (Robert Gilchrist Robb) eye.  Writes about his being discharged from the Virginia National Guard (?). Mentions plans for new job.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes he has volunteered for the Army, mentions that wife, Liz and their two daughters, will live in Spotsylvania Court House while he is away. Mentions renting his Belle Hill home to a soldier, and wants to rent the large house too. Mentions Army induction at Bowling Green and then moves to Camp Lee. He is stationed at Salem Airbase in Oregon for training. Mentions training experiences and his \"expert\" marksmanship. Believes he will be stationed behind the lines in war. Reassigned to \"Ono siding\" near San Bernardino, California. Describes location and his job there. Mentions plans to visit Los Angeles and Mexico, as well as visiting Hollywood where they made \"The Birth of a Nation\".","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes the he is applying for \"agriculturalist discharge\", his Belle Hill farm is no longer being cared for due to labor shortages, his request is denied.  Mentions concern for Robert Gilchrist Robb who recently fainted and requires bed rest.  Mentions the weather of San Bernardino.  Mentions his furlough being cancelled many times, wants to visit family in Virginia for Christmas.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of 700 Italian prisoners coming to a camp near San Bernardino, California, and their housing. Writes of camp life, mentions government-produced films being shown to the men. Mentions the weather of San Bernardino. References family in Virginia and responds to news from Frances, mentions his neice and her accomplishments. Included is a letter to William from Frances which mentions that her daughter will be attending Sweet Briar College. William mentions doings of other men like working at \"Kaisers steel mills\". Mentions his working extra hours for extra money for his upcoming furlough, received the good conduct metal which he finds ironic because he often breaks the rules. Includes pictures.","Letters from William Key Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of his quartermaster in San Bernardino, California being disbanded and of his transfer to Ft. Lewis near Seatle, Washington, expects to be assigned to medical duty. At Ft. Lewis he must go through basic training again and eight weeks of technical training. Describes his training experiences including a film entitled \"The Colored Soldier\", discusses race and the military. Anticipates his furlough at the end of training. Mentions many AWOLs and unit break ups- so the Army increased furloughs to raise moral. Mentions camp life at Ft. Lewis and his plans to visit Tokoma and Seattle, he prefers Seattle. Responds to news about his family and friends back home, mentions Robert Robb's illness many times, Robb had a blood clot and was bedridden.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions Robert Robb's upcoming retirement from William and Mary at the end of the 1945-1946 school year.  William began working at Quantico in 1945, received his terminal leave pay in December 1947. Alludes to nephew (Robert Robb Jr.) joining the Army. Mentions attending the dedication of a Stuart tablet at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in King George County, Virginia. Writes of visits to Gay Mont and of planting rye at Belle Hill.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb, mostly news about activities, health, and location of family members both immediate and distant. Mentions wife Liz being in Jamestown for Queen Elizabeth's visit. Gay Mont sold in 1958. Writes that he moved furniture and personal property: paintings (one by Sully sent to Frances). Appears upset about sale of Gay Mont. A 1958 map of Gay Mont included and hints that Pattons might buy Gay Mont soon. A few letters to Frances Robb from both William and his wife which mention France's daughter Fran having surgery twice. William works for the fire department at Quantico as well as at his farm Belle Hill.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb.  Mentions helping clean up debris left by the fire at Gay Mont, alludes to the Pattons' intention to restore the house.  Mentions his daughters, Ellen and Cary, attending Mary Washington College, Ellen also spent some time at William and Mary.  Mentions having portraits restored one of Ellen and one of Alice.  Comments on the inauguration of John F. Kennedy which he viewed on television.  References situation in Berlin and advises sister to buy extra food each week to build a supply.  William has been copying Uncle William's Civil War diary which mentions the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg which he was able to avoid. Includes a copy of an article \"The Valleys of Virginia- The Rappahannock\" published in 1859- mentions Port Royal, Gay Mont, and slave working conditions in the region. Folder also includes a captioned photograph from a newsletter (?) commemorating William K. Howard's thirty years of services as a firefighter.","Letters from William Key Howard to sister Frances Robb. Mentions daughters Ellen and Cary were home for Christmas, going to Washington D.C. to visit Amy. Mamie had Christmas dinner with the Howards, Mamie injured herself after Christmas. Letter from Liz Howard to Frances about Christams, mentions John Glenn's flight on television and Bill's truck problems. Mentions snow storm of 15 inches and loss of power for 32 hours. Bill and Liz celebrated 25th wedding aniversary April 1962. Discusses school plans as well as work and summer plans for Cary and Ellen. Eugenia may have had a stroke 1962. Mentions a midnight Christmas service at St. George. Amy fell down stairs and broke her pelvis. Saw the Mona Lisa in Washington D.C. Mentions the marriage of Mr. Brigham to a Spencer from Williamsburg. Mentions that Jim will be out of the service in 1963. Writes of farm and animal life. Liz receives Mama's diamond. Mentions Belle Hill's estate price. Discusses Amy's will.","Letters, cards, and newspaper clippings to Frances Robb (Mrs. R.G. Robb). Bill retired his daughter Cary moved to Fairfax. Mentions Ellen and Cary's affairs. Cary and Ellen drive to Lake Tahoe. Ford Motor Company is interested in Freedom Hill. Bill and Liz celebrate their 29th anniversary. Mentions some purchases from Miller and Rhoads. Cary goes to Athens, Georgia mentions KKK trials. Mentions Bill and Lem Houston's march on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bill in court as witness about over assesment. William dies February 10, 1898. Manzie dies October 20, 1913- letters from Hollywood grave stones. Thank-you note from Liz. Mentions a trip to Montross. Thank-you letter for tulips. Mentions a 50 cent pieces Bobby is saving and plans of Ellen and Patti's trip to Europe.","Letters and cards from Bill and Liz to sister Frances Robb. Mentions affairs of Mamie, her moving, the sale of her house to Bill, her health, and estate. Writes of Clara and her health, operation, and later her death. Affairs of Cary and Ellen, schooling, travels, and their weddings. Writes on politics and the meeting of the Eight District of Legion. Mentions some dental problems, and that Olive Swanson from LaVere died. Also mentions Olive's sisters Blanche and Lousie Cassell and also mentions a geneology booklet about the Tuckahoe Randolphs being recently acquired. Writes of visiting Tuckahoe and Richmond with Buff and Sally. Nora is in hospital. Mincie Polock died and Bill died. Liz and Dorothy Harris visit Prince William, Manassas. Mentions a painting by Sully in Governor's Mansion. Bill elected to be Key Man for coming year. Bill buys a new car, went to Gay Mont and mentions book named Golden Age of Piracy. Discusses Christmas plans and gifts. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Discusses Belle Hill afairs such as hunting, dogs, and fuel oil as well as of Liz's new teaching job. Includes a typed copy of the History and Life of Thomas Mann Randolph and documentation of Gilchrist from the Clan Macfarlane. Columbia in hospital. Mentions Tides Inn visit to Shirley and Berkely Plantations. Bill still member of American Legion. Visits with family at Gay Mont. Mentions chromolithographs. Mentions Chestertown and Cambridge on the Eastern Shore where he worked. Liz injured herself. Writes of politics. Flower delivery for Frances. Bill giving up farming plans to rent Camden farm to Piedmont Fertilizer. Piedmont affairs. Mentions the weather, flooding and Paul Karsten's health. Writes of people in Florida. Writes of Bill and Buff's relationship and outings. Mentions \"We Began At Jamestown\" and party at Prospect Hill. Talks of high school reunion and John Billingsley's face lift. Mentions visit of Newt Hill and Clara Louise and daughter. Writes of hunting dogs and hunting. Mentions mulitple visits and socials with different persons. Bill is a grandpa and in 69 years old. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Bear sighting at Gay Mont. Mentions Cary, Fritz, and Ashley's travels. Mentions weather. Writes of dinner parties and guests. Plans for 50th high school reunion. Mentions photographs of John Eager's medal. Bill member of 32nd degree in Scottish RIte of Masonry in Richmond, initiated into Shriners. Includes copy of parole document from National Archives from Headquarters Department of Virginia 1865 William Howard as prisoner of war 4th Virginia Calvary, permission to go home to Maryland. Bill to be grandpa in May. Mentions multiple wedding anniversaries, weddings, and events of friends. Discusses possible oil shortages soon.","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Information on Cary, Fritz, and family. Writes about social visits from various family members. Bear sightings at Gay Mont. Writes of Washington D.C. and traffic issues as well as archival work. Includes copies: Philip L. Robb, William R. Bernard of Co.B 9th Virginia Calvary, (Johnson's Regiment). Mentions Ellen and Jim as well as Columbia's health improving. Writes of Tom's auto accident at Gay Mont and mentions Brown's Motel in Port Royal. Writes of Joe Holloway's funeral and events. Contains get well cards to Frances. Mentions hunting on his property and deer season. Contains 3 photographs of Ashley and Key. Mentions a brass Randolph paper clip and a New Year party at Propect Hill. Mentions the Hoyt's party and health. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Mentions Belle Hill and farm affairs. Writes of various persons being in the hospital. Mentions two historians from Park Services and a PhD visiting him to talk about Chatham, inquired of pictures, maps, and events. Writes of the geneology of the Virginian Howards and the Maryland Howards as well as an article Cary wrote. Writes of Liz's biopsy. Mentions Ellen's visit and travels. Discusses A.P.V.A. deal and people. Mentions Gay Mont, Mount Zion, a wedding at Vanters, Tappahannock, Mulberry Place, the Eupatorium Incarnatu, Kenmore, Woodlawn, and Bowling Green. Mentions Howard McHenry, Paul Karsten and his family, Frances Patton, the Boddies, Eleanor Iglehart, granddaughter Ashley, Mrs. Briggs, Charles and Madge Marshell, the Holmes, Katherine Yerby, and states that Mary Stevenson and John Billingsly died. Writes often of dogs and some of politics. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb. Writes of fuel oil and prices. Mentions the weather and writes often of the dogs. Visits of family, Ellen, Liz, Cary, and grandchildren. Writes about historians inquiring about Chatham. Discussess geneological matters. Bill plants 7,00 pines on property-cost sharing-writes of trees. Mentions John and Peg Russell, Mary Coleman, Jim, David Holmes, Thomas and Lawson Waring, Dr. McFarland, Dorothy and Joe Harris, Bob Krick, the Caroline Historical Society, Taylor Turner, Dorothy Peters, Sally Scott Norris, Wallace Yerby, Forrest Dickinson, and Marge Arnold. Plans of going to Europe. Also mentions Napels Florida, St. Asaphs, Bowling Green, Tuckahoe, Belle Hill, Stratford, Camden, Spotsylvania, St. Peters, New Salem Church, Gay Mont, Vanters, and Fredericksburg. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Frances Robb is in the hospital. Writes of weather-mentions hang up dead water snake so rain would come. Writes of dogs and new dog. Mentions gardening and the Rappahannock Valley Garden Club. Writes of many social visits and church services. Mentions Lucille Reilly, John Ballentine, Virginius Dabney's history book, the Yerby's and the Wallace's, Rosalie, Ellen and Columbia, the Quarles, Raplph Robertsons, Alice Turner. Writes of Bowling Green, Wynnewood Pennsylvania, Gay Mont, Port Royal, Goldenvale Creek, Gouldman Dam. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard and Frances Patton to Frances Robb. Includes photograph of Lucy Anne Patterson \"Mamseys\" Mother. Mentions the weather. Writes of Ellen and Cary and their plans and travels. Mentions the dogs. Purchase of brick lined stove. Mentions Thanksgiving plans with family. Writes of various social visits and parties. Mentions Bob Hicks, Dorothy Harris, Ralph Fall, the Howards, the Russells and the Carters, Sally Norris Scott, and Rosalie Taylor, as well as Spring Grove, Bowling Green, Gay Mont and Snow Creek, the Crowningshield Building at Kenmore, and the Happy Clam. Writes of Columbus day being celebrated on the 10th not the 12th. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to sister Frances Robb. Writes of Frances' dinner party and of the stone from James H. Byran Memorials of Harrisonburg. John A. Weaver is their Fredericksburg representative. Stone brought to Gay Mont-writes of mud and trouble with delivery. Bill's cousin Key died. Frances is in the hospital, plans to return home on her birthday. Liz thanks Fran for sending checks. Mentions settling France's estate. Description of Frances. Liz works at the hospital. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Letters from Bill Howard to Frances Robb, Letters of Jim, Meem and Patty. Bill thanks Fran and Bob for presents. Mentions New Year party at the Hoyt's and travels through Castles. Fran treated Jim to lunch, Fran to stay with either Cary or Jim. Letter to Meem and Patty talks about power lines and the APVA. Mentions Joanna Catron the curator at \"Belmont\", Anita Pratt, Madell family and Beverley, Taylor Turner's death, Louis Rollins, Jayne Harding, the Cheesmans, Beverley Pratt, Julian Hudson, the Bowens and Marjorie Strother, Jeff Gilbert, the Erhards. Also mentions the DMA picnic at Berry Plain. Mentions placing flags at grave sites. Writes of wedding plans. Mentions the Bowens making \"Oaken Brow\" into a spinach farm. Mentions Gay Mont, Bridgeville, Ghelarduccis and surrounding street names. Includes a page from a diary, and writes of viewing many photographs. Mentions various names of streets and locations. (A more detailed description included in folder).","Includes\"'calling card, brownley's, Washington, DC, message from Bill\". Index card with names of William Key Howard to sister Frances R.H. Robb, Frances Lightfoot Robb and wife, Elizabeth Crismond Howard. Index card from Elizabeth Crismond Howard to sister in law Frances Robb. Very small postcard from Smith Memorial, Philadelphia to Miss F.R. Howard in Washington DC. Postcard from Bill with photograph of Tsukuba. Postcards from Bill to F.R. Howard, postcard to Mrs. R.G. Robb, all with various images. As well as undated items in Howards-cards and letters folder. (A more detailed description located in folder.)","One 8\" x 10\" black and white photograph of Eugenia van Dyke Robb that was used for a story published by the Baltimore Sun in 1943.","This series contains letters, postcards, photographs, and other material related to the Robb-Bernard family. Most of the material relates to the family of Frances Robb. Some of the correspondents in the letters include Robert Gilchrist Robb, Jr., Frances Randolph Howard, and other members of the Howard family. Material related to Frances Robb's time at William and Mary is also included."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["American Chemical Society","American Red Cross","United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization","Bernard Family","Hipkins family","Robb family","Robb-Bernard family","Upton family","Taylor, John, 1753-1824","Tompkins, Sally Louisa, 1833-1916"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)","American Chemical Society","American Red Cross","United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization","Bernard Family","Hipkins family","Robb family","Robb-Bernard family","Upton family","Taylor, John, 1753-1824","Tompkins, Sally Louisa, 1833-1916"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.)","American Chemical Society","American Red Cross","United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization"],"famname_ssim":["Bernard Family","Hipkins family","Robb family","Robb-Bernard family","Upton family"],"persname_ssim":["Taylor, John, 1753-1824","Tompkins, Sally Louisa, 1833-1916"],"language_ssim":["English French Dutch;Flemish"],"total_component_count_is":288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-24T23:22:27.474Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_1928"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1323","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_1323#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThis artificial collection of World War II era correspondence spans 1935 and 1939-1945. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This artificial collection of World War II era correspondence spans 1935 and 1939-1945. The letters are primarily from soldiers serving in the US Armed Forces, but there are also a few letters written by American civilians living in the USA during this period. One folder contains 33 letters from various German soldiers, written to Marie Luise Matsko of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany (written in German). Collected by Tom Sunkiskis, this two-box collection contains correspondence from a variety of authors serving in all branches of the US military excluding the Coast Guard. Correspondence has been sorted by author and/or recipient and a brief description of the correspondence dialogue is provided. Some letters contain photographs.","This collection has been digitized. Links to the digital objects are accessible at the folder level within the container inventory.","This letter from PFC Russell Whitney Scibold, Greenland is written to  Miss Bertha Osborne, Elkins Park, PA.","This folder contains three letters from TSgt Lew E. Wilson, Australia and New Guinea, to Miss Betty Osborne, Elkins Park, PA, dated July 12, July 27, and Aug 13, 1944.","This folder contains two letters from TSgt Earl G. Palmer, Italy, to Miss Betty Osborne, Elkins, Park, PA, dated May 2 and July 4, 1944. US Army Air Corps. A photograph of Palmer is included. In the first letter, he flirts with Osborne. In the second letter, he writes that he is coming home.","This folder contains eleven letters from Dallas M. Franklin, at New Orleans, San Francisco, and Gulf Port, Miss., to Miss Elizabeth Osborn, Elkins Park, PA. They married in 1945, from which point the letters are addressed to Mrs. D.M. Franklin. \nIn the letters, he speaks of his affection for her, their courtship, and later marriage. He's bored with his duties. He tries to resolve a fight with his wife about what he will do for work when he returns. He recounts some of his war time experiences.","This folder contains letters from Luther H. Franklin, Seattle, WA, to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas M. Franklin. 10th AAF Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron. His letters discuss how \"Yankees\" get along with \"Rebels\" (Northerners and Southerners) in the military. He talks about how he misses home and his love for the South.","The letters from Walter E. Walker, South Pacific, are addressed to Mrs. Walter E. Walker, Fort Edward, NY, US Navy. He discusses how the war has changed him, things will be better when he returns, and his duties as a mail censor. He describes how one soldier became angry at him for censoring his letter. A photograph of sailors wearing traditional Hawaiian women's clothing is included.","Letters from Cpl. Jerome \"Jerry\" H. Lein, England and Germany, to his wife, Mrs. Jerome H. Lein, and son, in Brooklyn, NY. The letters dated from November 1944 to July 1945 discuss family affairs and soldier life in England, France, and Germany.","This folder contains additional letters from Cpl. Jerome \"Jerry\" H. Lein, England and Germany, to his wife, Mrs. Jerome H. Lein, and son, in Brooklyn, NY.","This folder contains letters from William P. Eschborn, Air Corps Technical School, Keesler Field, Miss., to Miss Anita \"Dude\" Lindner, Buffalo, NY. He discusses training school, the war, and his sadness and shock about the death of Lucy, her sister.","The letters from William P. Eschborn, [at various air training bases in the USA], to Miss Anita Lindner, Buffalo, NY, USAF, discuss how pilot training functions and how the Army wants better trained pilots, not just people who can \"take off and land.\" He speaks of his anticipation to get involved in the war.","This folder contains incoming correspondence to Anita Lindner concerning the sudden and unexpected death of her sister, Lucy, in 1943.","The letters from Hugh E. Smith, Naval Air Station, Dutch Harbor, AK to Miss Jessie Hatter, Harrisburg, PA, talk of local happenings and discuss life in school. Some letters are written on USN letterhead, one with a drawing of the Seabees logo.","This folder contains letters from Francis X. Schwartz, India and Palm Springs, CA, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Schwartz, Philadelphia. Schwartz was a member of the US Army Air Corps. His letters ask about life at home and of family and friends. He notes that cigarettes are cheap there, flying is \"swell\", and that he had a great time in Beverly Hills.","The folder contains V-mail letters from Cpl. James W. Lindley, San Francisco, CA, to Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Taylor, Baldwin, Miss., and to Miss Ann Lindley, Aberdeen, Miss.\nIn the letter to the Taylors, he writes, \"I'm sad to hear Ira Taylor got killed. I don't think Germany will last much longer, and the Japanese not much longer after that.\" He talk of family and the war. In the letter to Lindley, he writes, \"We hiked ten miles today and I'm tired. I have athlete's foot. Some of these fellows have been knocking off Japs'.\"","The letter from Roby T. Johnson, USS South Dakota, to Mr. Carl A. Johnson, W. Medford, MA. US Navy, discusses military life aboard ship.","The letter from PFC Joseph Rodgers, Europe, to Mrs. George Stump, Columbus, Ohio. USAF. Discusses family and home. He writes, \"I saw Churchill when he was over here, he is sure a little fat guy.\"","The letter from Rita Sheroin, Tampa, FL, to Richard A. Boudman, Maxwell Field, AL, discusses movies she has seen and her schooling.","The folder contains letters from A/T Ted M. Czerniak, Naples Airfield, FL, to Miss Helen Czerniak, Philadelphia, PA, as well as a letter to  Mrs. Mary Czerniak, Philadelphia, PA.","The letter from \"Virginia\", Memphis Tenn., to 1st Lt. Arthur L. Barnes, Lubbock Army Flying School, TX conveys the news that that Bill was killed in North Africa. She is thinking seriously about joining the WAACS after the baby is born.","This folder contains documents, including registration cards, relating to Jacob Goldberg's induction. In a letter from J. Mahony, Chief Clerk, USA Selective Service System, Bronx, NY, to Jacob Goldberg, Bronx, NY, dated October. 6, 1943, Mahony informs Goldberg that the Local Board has refused to reopen his case. He must report for induction as previously directed.","SSgt. Richard \"Dick\" W. Rockett, Camp Clairborne, LA, to G. J. Sizemore, Dallas, TX, US Army, discusses his military experiences. He enlisted in the old Battery A, now Co. A. 104 Infantry Battalion Anti-Tank. He discusses his experiences cooking in the mess hall and was promoted to Private First Class. This folder includes newspaper clippings of Mrs. P.H. Adams' four boys.","Papers relating to Glen J. Sizemore, including cigarette ration cards, a photograph, a Navy pay receipt, a special liberty request, and letters from Roy Lee Sizemore to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX. US Navy. The personal letters from Roy Lee Sizemore, aboard the USS Rigel, to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX, discuss Roy's recommendation that Glen pursue a job with a sheet-metal company based in Honolulu. Roy is glad to be aboard the Rigel because it is \"the least regulation ship in the Navy.\" The Rigel is a repair ship and seldom goes to sea. \"It gets rather monotonous, just putting in a day.\" He also writes, \"It is always bad to try and mix civilian workmen and enlisted men and expect to get any work done.\"","The letter from Jessie M. Wimberly, aboard the USS Boxer in the Yellow Sea, to G. Sizemore, Clovis, NM discusses life aboard ship.","The letters from \"Don\", New York City, to Miss Josephine Bohner, Lancaster, NY discusses school and his visit to Chinatown.","This folder contains the incoming correspondence of Marie Luise Matsko, Wiesbaden, Hesse. The bulk of the letters were written by Matsko's brother Harold Meier, at Augsburg, Bavaria and other places while serving in the military, and a few other letters were written by different friends who were also serving in the military. A photograph of Meier included. Letters discuss Meier's work in the army. He writes from Hamburg, Augsburg, and various other places. He states his work is generally \"schon\" and talks of the war and inquires about family. All letters are written in German.","Two letters from the US War Department and US Navy Recruiting Station, sent to Jack A. Clark, Jr., Delanco, NJ, in response to Clark's inquiries about enrolling in Naval Aviation School and a Air Corps Technical School. Both give him instructions on how to apply and how the process functions.","Photograph of US soldier \"Angelo\",  4 x 6.","The stamps are Christmas season issue.","Used envelopes, letters not included.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","English German"],"unitid_tesim":["MS 00109","/repositories/2/resources/1323"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection"],"collection_title_tesim":["Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection"],"collection_ssim":["Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 2007.88 (Box 1, folders 1-11) and Acc. 2007.84 (Box 1, Folder 12 and Box 2)"],"access_subjects_ssim":["World War, 1939-1945","World War, 1939-1945--European Front","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Correspondence","Photographs"],"access_subjects_ssm":["World War, 1939-1945","World War, 1939-1945--European Front","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Correspondence","Photographs"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["0.66 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["0.66 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Photographs"],"date_range_isim":[1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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They married in 1945, from which point the letters are addressed to Mrs. D.M. Franklin. \nIn the letters, he speaks of his affection for her, their courtship, and later marriage. He's bored with his duties. He tries to resolve a fight with his wife about what he will do for work when he returns. He recounts some of his war time experiences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains letters from Luther H. Franklin, Seattle, WA, to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas M. Franklin. 10th AAF Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron. His letters discuss how \"Yankees\" get along with \"Rebels\" (Northerners and Southerners) in the military. He talks about how he misses home and his love for the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters from Walter E. Walker, South Pacific, are addressed to Mrs. Walter E. Walker, Fort Edward, NY, US Navy. He discusses how the war has changed him, things will be better when he returns, and his duties as a mail censor. 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Sizemore, including cigarette ration cards, a photograph, a Navy pay receipt, a special liberty request, and letters from Roy Lee Sizemore to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX. US Navy. The personal letters from Roy Lee Sizemore, aboard the USS Rigel, to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX, discuss Roy's recommendation that Glen pursue a job with a sheet-metal company based in Honolulu. Roy is glad to be aboard the Rigel because it is \"the least regulation ship in the Navy.\" The Rigel is a repair ship and seldom goes to sea. \"It gets rather monotonous, just putting in a day.\" He also writes, \"It is always bad to try and mix civilian workmen and enlisted men and expect to get any work done.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Jessie M. Wimberly, aboard the USS Boxer in the Yellow Sea, to G. Sizemore, Clovis, NM discusses life aboard ship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters from \"Don\", New York City, to Miss Josephine Bohner, Lancaster, NY discusses school and his visit to Chinatown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains the incoming correspondence of Marie Luise Matsko, Wiesbaden, Hesse. The bulk of the letters were written by Matsko's brother Harold Meier, at Augsburg, Bavaria and other places while serving in the military, and a few other letters were written by different friends who were also serving in the military. A photograph of Meier included. Letters discuss Meier's work in the army. He writes from Hamburg, Augsburg, and various other places. He states his work is generally \"schon\" and talks of the war and inquires about family. All letters are written in German.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from the US War Department and US Navy Recruiting Station, sent to Jack A. 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The letters are primarily from soldiers serving in the US Armed Forces, but there are also a few letters written by American civilians living in the USA during this period. One folder contains 33 letters from various German soldiers, written to Marie Luise Matsko of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany (written in German). Collected by Tom Sunkiskis, this two-box collection contains correspondence from a variety of authors serving in all branches of the US military excluding the Coast Guard. Correspondence has been sorted by author and/or recipient and a brief description of the correspondence dialogue is provided. Some letters contain photographs.","This collection has been digitized. Links to the digital objects are accessible at the folder level within the container inventory.","This letter from PFC Russell Whitney Scibold, Greenland is written to  Miss Bertha Osborne, Elkins Park, PA.","This folder contains three letters from TSgt Lew E. Wilson, Australia and New Guinea, to Miss Betty Osborne, Elkins Park, PA, dated July 12, July 27, and Aug 13, 1944.","This folder contains two letters from TSgt Earl G. Palmer, Italy, to Miss Betty Osborne, Elkins, Park, PA, dated May 2 and July 4, 1944. US Army Air Corps. A photograph of Palmer is included. In the first letter, he flirts with Osborne. In the second letter, he writes that he is coming home.","This folder contains eleven letters from Dallas M. Franklin, at New Orleans, San Francisco, and Gulf Port, Miss., to Miss Elizabeth Osborn, Elkins Park, PA. They married in 1945, from which point the letters are addressed to Mrs. D.M. Franklin. \nIn the letters, he speaks of his affection for her, their courtship, and later marriage. He's bored with his duties. He tries to resolve a fight with his wife about what he will do for work when he returns. He recounts some of his war time experiences.","This folder contains letters from Luther H. Franklin, Seattle, WA, to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas M. Franklin. 10th AAF Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron. His letters discuss how \"Yankees\" get along with \"Rebels\" (Northerners and Southerners) in the military. He talks about how he misses home and his love for the South.","The letters from Walter E. Walker, South Pacific, are addressed to Mrs. Walter E. Walker, Fort Edward, NY, US Navy. He discusses how the war has changed him, things will be better when he returns, and his duties as a mail censor. He describes how one soldier became angry at him for censoring his letter. A photograph of sailors wearing traditional Hawaiian women's clothing is included.","Letters from Cpl. Jerome \"Jerry\" H. Lein, England and Germany, to his wife, Mrs. Jerome H. Lein, and son, in Brooklyn, NY. The letters dated from November 1944 to July 1945 discuss family affairs and soldier life in England, France, and Germany.","This folder contains additional letters from Cpl. Jerome \"Jerry\" H. Lein, England and Germany, to his wife, Mrs. Jerome H. Lein, and son, in Brooklyn, NY.","This folder contains letters from William P. Eschborn, Air Corps Technical School, Keesler Field, Miss., to Miss Anita \"Dude\" Lindner, Buffalo, NY. He discusses training school, the war, and his sadness and shock about the death of Lucy, her sister.","The letters from William P. Eschborn, [at various air training bases in the USA], to Miss Anita Lindner, Buffalo, NY, USAF, discuss how pilot training functions and how the Army wants better trained pilots, not just people who can \"take off and land.\" He speaks of his anticipation to get involved in the war.","This folder contains incoming correspondence to Anita Lindner concerning the sudden and unexpected death of her sister, Lucy, in 1943.","The letters from Hugh E. Smith, Naval Air Station, Dutch Harbor, AK to Miss Jessie Hatter, Harrisburg, PA, talk of local happenings and discuss life in school. Some letters are written on USN letterhead, one with a drawing of the Seabees logo.","This folder contains letters from Francis X. Schwartz, India and Palm Springs, CA, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Schwartz, Philadelphia. Schwartz was a member of the US Army Air Corps. His letters ask about life at home and of family and friends. He notes that cigarettes are cheap there, flying is \"swell\", and that he had a great time in Beverly Hills.","The folder contains V-mail letters from Cpl. James W. Lindley, San Francisco, CA, to Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Taylor, Baldwin, Miss., and to Miss Ann Lindley, Aberdeen, Miss.\nIn the letter to the Taylors, he writes, \"I'm sad to hear Ira Taylor got killed. I don't think Germany will last much longer, and the Japanese not much longer after that.\" He talk of family and the war. In the letter to Lindley, he writes, \"We hiked ten miles today and I'm tired. I have athlete's foot. Some of these fellows have been knocking off Japs'.\"","The letter from Roby T. Johnson, USS South Dakota, to Mr. Carl A. Johnson, W. Medford, MA. US Navy, discusses military life aboard ship.","The letter from PFC Joseph Rodgers, Europe, to Mrs. George Stump, Columbus, Ohio. USAF. Discusses family and home. He writes, \"I saw Churchill when he was over here, he is sure a little fat guy.\"","The letter from Rita Sheroin, Tampa, FL, to Richard A. Boudman, Maxwell Field, AL, discusses movies she has seen and her schooling.","The folder contains letters from A/T Ted M. Czerniak, Naples Airfield, FL, to Miss Helen Czerniak, Philadelphia, PA, as well as a letter to  Mrs. Mary Czerniak, Philadelphia, PA.","The letter from \"Virginia\", Memphis Tenn., to 1st Lt. Arthur L. Barnes, Lubbock Army Flying School, TX conveys the news that that Bill was killed in North Africa. She is thinking seriously about joining the WAACS after the baby is born.","This folder contains documents, including registration cards, relating to Jacob Goldberg's induction. In a letter from J. Mahony, Chief Clerk, USA Selective Service System, Bronx, NY, to Jacob Goldberg, Bronx, NY, dated October. 6, 1943, Mahony informs Goldberg that the Local Board has refused to reopen his case. He must report for induction as previously directed.","SSgt. Richard \"Dick\" W. Rockett, Camp Clairborne, LA, to G. J. Sizemore, Dallas, TX, US Army, discusses his military experiences. He enlisted in the old Battery A, now Co. A. 104 Infantry Battalion Anti-Tank. He discusses his experiences cooking in the mess hall and was promoted to Private First Class. This folder includes newspaper clippings of Mrs. P.H. Adams' four boys.","Papers relating to Glen J. Sizemore, including cigarette ration cards, a photograph, a Navy pay receipt, a special liberty request, and letters from Roy Lee Sizemore to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX. US Navy. The personal letters from Roy Lee Sizemore, aboard the USS Rigel, to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX, discuss Roy's recommendation that Glen pursue a job with a sheet-metal company based in Honolulu. Roy is glad to be aboard the Rigel because it is \"the least regulation ship in the Navy.\" The Rigel is a repair ship and seldom goes to sea. \"It gets rather monotonous, just putting in a day.\" He also writes, \"It is always bad to try and mix civilian workmen and enlisted men and expect to get any work done.\"","The letter from Jessie M. Wimberly, aboard the USS Boxer in the Yellow Sea, to G. Sizemore, Clovis, NM discusses life aboard ship.","The letters from \"Don\", New York City, to Miss Josephine Bohner, Lancaster, NY discusses school and his visit to Chinatown.","This folder contains the incoming correspondence of Marie Luise Matsko, Wiesbaden, Hesse. The bulk of the letters were written by Matsko's brother Harold Meier, at Augsburg, Bavaria and other places while serving in the military, and a few other letters were written by different friends who were also serving in the military. A photograph of Meier included. Letters discuss Meier's work in the army. He writes from Hamburg, Augsburg, and various other places. He states his work is generally \"schon\" and talks of the war and inquires about family. All letters are written in German.","Two letters from the US War Department and US Navy Recruiting Station, sent to Jack A. Clark, Jr., Delanco, NJ, in response to Clark's inquiries about enrolling in Naval Aviation School and a Air Corps Technical School. Both give him instructions on how to apply and how the process functions.","Photograph of US soldier \"Angelo\",  4 x 6.","The stamps are Christmas season issue.","Used envelopes, letters not included."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"language_ssim":["English German"],"total_component_count_is":30,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T07:46:05.299Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1323","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1323","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1323","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1323","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_1323.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Sunkiskis,Tom World War II Collection","title_ssm":["Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection"],"title_tesim":["Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection"],"unitdate_ssm":["1935-1945"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1935-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["MS 00109","/repositories/2/resources/1323"],"text":["MS 00109","/repositories/2/resources/1323","Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection","World War, 1939-1945","World War, 1939-1945--European Front","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Correspondence","Photographs","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This artificial collection of World War II era correspondence spans 1935 and 1939-1945. The letters are primarily from soldiers serving in the US Armed Forces, but there are also a few letters written by American civilians living in the USA during this period. One folder contains 33 letters from various German soldiers, written to Marie Luise Matsko of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany (written in German). Collected by Tom Sunkiskis, this two-box collection contains correspondence from a variety of authors serving in all branches of the US military excluding the Coast Guard. Correspondence has been sorted by author and/or recipient and a brief description of the correspondence dialogue is provided. Some letters contain photographs.","This collection has been digitized. Links to the digital objects are accessible at the folder level within the container inventory.","This letter from PFC Russell Whitney Scibold, Greenland is written to  Miss Bertha Osborne, Elkins Park, PA.","This folder contains three letters from TSgt Lew E. Wilson, Australia and New Guinea, to Miss Betty Osborne, Elkins Park, PA, dated July 12, July 27, and Aug 13, 1944.","This folder contains two letters from TSgt Earl G. Palmer, Italy, to Miss Betty Osborne, Elkins, Park, PA, dated May 2 and July 4, 1944. US Army Air Corps. A photograph of Palmer is included. In the first letter, he flirts with Osborne. In the second letter, he writes that he is coming home.","This folder contains eleven letters from Dallas M. Franklin, at New Orleans, San Francisco, and Gulf Port, Miss., to Miss Elizabeth Osborn, Elkins Park, PA. They married in 1945, from which point the letters are addressed to Mrs. D.M. Franklin. \nIn the letters, he speaks of his affection for her, their courtship, and later marriage. He's bored with his duties. He tries to resolve a fight with his wife about what he will do for work when he returns. He recounts some of his war time experiences.","This folder contains letters from Luther H. Franklin, Seattle, WA, to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas M. Franklin. 10th AAF Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron. His letters discuss how \"Yankees\" get along with \"Rebels\" (Northerners and Southerners) in the military. He talks about how he misses home and his love for the South.","The letters from Walter E. Walker, South Pacific, are addressed to Mrs. Walter E. Walker, Fort Edward, NY, US Navy. He discusses how the war has changed him, things will be better when he returns, and his duties as a mail censor. He describes how one soldier became angry at him for censoring his letter. A photograph of sailors wearing traditional Hawaiian women's clothing is included.","Letters from Cpl. Jerome \"Jerry\" H. Lein, England and Germany, to his wife, Mrs. Jerome H. Lein, and son, in Brooklyn, NY. The letters dated from November 1944 to July 1945 discuss family affairs and soldier life in England, France, and Germany.","This folder contains additional letters from Cpl. Jerome \"Jerry\" H. Lein, England and Germany, to his wife, Mrs. Jerome H. Lein, and son, in Brooklyn, NY.","This folder contains letters from William P. Eschborn, Air Corps Technical School, Keesler Field, Miss., to Miss Anita \"Dude\" Lindner, Buffalo, NY. He discusses training school, the war, and his sadness and shock about the death of Lucy, her sister.","The letters from William P. Eschborn, [at various air training bases in the USA], to Miss Anita Lindner, Buffalo, NY, USAF, discuss how pilot training functions and how the Army wants better trained pilots, not just people who can \"take off and land.\" He speaks of his anticipation to get involved in the war.","This folder contains incoming correspondence to Anita Lindner concerning the sudden and unexpected death of her sister, Lucy, in 1943.","The letters from Hugh E. Smith, Naval Air Station, Dutch Harbor, AK to Miss Jessie Hatter, Harrisburg, PA, talk of local happenings and discuss life in school. Some letters are written on USN letterhead, one with a drawing of the Seabees logo.","This folder contains letters from Francis X. Schwartz, India and Palm Springs, CA, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Schwartz, Philadelphia. Schwartz was a member of the US Army Air Corps. His letters ask about life at home and of family and friends. He notes that cigarettes are cheap there, flying is \"swell\", and that he had a great time in Beverly Hills.","The folder contains V-mail letters from Cpl. James W. Lindley, San Francisco, CA, to Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Taylor, Baldwin, Miss., and to Miss Ann Lindley, Aberdeen, Miss.\nIn the letter to the Taylors, he writes, \"I'm sad to hear Ira Taylor got killed. I don't think Germany will last much longer, and the Japanese not much longer after that.\" He talk of family and the war. In the letter to Lindley, he writes, \"We hiked ten miles today and I'm tired. I have athlete's foot. Some of these fellows have been knocking off Japs'.\"","The letter from Roby T. Johnson, USS South Dakota, to Mr. Carl A. Johnson, W. Medford, MA. US Navy, discusses military life aboard ship.","The letter from PFC Joseph Rodgers, Europe, to Mrs. George Stump, Columbus, Ohio. USAF. Discusses family and home. He writes, \"I saw Churchill when he was over here, he is sure a little fat guy.\"","The letter from Rita Sheroin, Tampa, FL, to Richard A. Boudman, Maxwell Field, AL, discusses movies she has seen and her schooling.","The folder contains letters from A/T Ted M. Czerniak, Naples Airfield, FL, to Miss Helen Czerniak, Philadelphia, PA, as well as a letter to  Mrs. Mary Czerniak, Philadelphia, PA.","The letter from \"Virginia\", Memphis Tenn., to 1st Lt. Arthur L. Barnes, Lubbock Army Flying School, TX conveys the news that that Bill was killed in North Africa. She is thinking seriously about joining the WAACS after the baby is born.","This folder contains documents, including registration cards, relating to Jacob Goldberg's induction. In a letter from J. Mahony, Chief Clerk, USA Selective Service System, Bronx, NY, to Jacob Goldberg, Bronx, NY, dated October. 6, 1943, Mahony informs Goldberg that the Local Board has refused to reopen his case. He must report for induction as previously directed.","SSgt. Richard \"Dick\" W. Rockett, Camp Clairborne, LA, to G. J. Sizemore, Dallas, TX, US Army, discusses his military experiences. He enlisted in the old Battery A, now Co. A. 104 Infantry Battalion Anti-Tank. He discusses his experiences cooking in the mess hall and was promoted to Private First Class. This folder includes newspaper clippings of Mrs. P.H. Adams' four boys.","Papers relating to Glen J. Sizemore, including cigarette ration cards, a photograph, a Navy pay receipt, a special liberty request, and letters from Roy Lee Sizemore to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX. US Navy. The personal letters from Roy Lee Sizemore, aboard the USS Rigel, to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX, discuss Roy's recommendation that Glen pursue a job with a sheet-metal company based in Honolulu. Roy is glad to be aboard the Rigel because it is \"the least regulation ship in the Navy.\" The Rigel is a repair ship and seldom goes to sea. \"It gets rather monotonous, just putting in a day.\" He also writes, \"It is always bad to try and mix civilian workmen and enlisted men and expect to get any work done.\"","The letter from Jessie M. Wimberly, aboard the USS Boxer in the Yellow Sea, to G. Sizemore, Clovis, NM discusses life aboard ship.","The letters from \"Don\", New York City, to Miss Josephine Bohner, Lancaster, NY discusses school and his visit to Chinatown.","This folder contains the incoming correspondence of Marie Luise Matsko, Wiesbaden, Hesse. The bulk of the letters were written by Matsko's brother Harold Meier, at Augsburg, Bavaria and other places while serving in the military, and a few other letters were written by different friends who were also serving in the military. A photograph of Meier included. Letters discuss Meier's work in the army. He writes from Hamburg, Augsburg, and various other places. He states his work is generally \"schon\" and talks of the war and inquires about family. All letters are written in German.","Two letters from the US War Department and US Navy Recruiting Station, sent to Jack A. Clark, Jr., Delanco, NJ, in response to Clark's inquiries about enrolling in Naval Aviation School and a Air Corps Technical School. Both give him instructions on how to apply and how the process functions.","Photograph of US soldier \"Angelo\",  4 x 6.","The stamps are Christmas season issue.","Used envelopes, letters not included.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","English German"],"unitid_tesim":["MS 00109","/repositories/2/resources/1323"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection"],"collection_title_tesim":["Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection"],"collection_ssim":["Tom Sunkiskis World War II Collection"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 2007.88 (Box 1, folders 1-11) and Acc. 2007.84 (Box 1, Folder 12 and Box 2)"],"access_subjects_ssim":["World War, 1939-1945","World War, 1939-1945--European Front","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Correspondence","Photographs"],"access_subjects_ssm":["World War, 1939-1945","World War, 1939-1945--European Front","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Correspondence","Photographs"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["0.66 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["0.66 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Photographs"],"date_range_isim":[1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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The letters are primarily from soldiers serving in the US Armed Forces, but there are also a few letters written by American civilians living in the USA during this period. One folder contains 33 letters from various German soldiers, written to Marie Luise Matsko of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany (written in German). Collected by Tom Sunkiskis, this two-box collection contains correspondence from a variety of authors serving in all branches of the US military excluding the Coast Guard. Correspondence has been sorted by author and/or recipient and a brief description of the correspondence dialogue is provided. Some letters contain photographs.","This collection has been digitized. Links to the digital objects are accessible at the folder level within the container inventory.","This letter from PFC Russell Whitney Scibold, Greenland is written to  Miss Bertha Osborne, Elkins Park, PA.","This folder contains three letters from TSgt Lew E. Wilson, Australia and New Guinea, to Miss Betty Osborne, Elkins Park, PA, dated July 12, July 27, and Aug 13, 1944.","This folder contains two letters from TSgt Earl G. Palmer, Italy, to Miss Betty Osborne, Elkins, Park, PA, dated May 2 and July 4, 1944. US Army Air Corps. A photograph of Palmer is included. In the first letter, he flirts with Osborne. In the second letter, he writes that he is coming home.","This folder contains eleven letters from Dallas M. Franklin, at New Orleans, San Francisco, and Gulf Port, Miss., to Miss Elizabeth Osborn, Elkins Park, PA. They married in 1945, from which point the letters are addressed to Mrs. D.M. Franklin. \nIn the letters, he speaks of his affection for her, their courtship, and later marriage. He's bored with his duties. He tries to resolve a fight with his wife about what he will do for work when he returns. He recounts some of his war time experiences.","This folder contains letters from Luther H. Franklin, Seattle, WA, to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas M. Franklin. 10th AAF Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron. His letters discuss how \"Yankees\" get along with \"Rebels\" (Northerners and Southerners) in the military. He talks about how he misses home and his love for the South.","The letters from Walter E. Walker, South Pacific, are addressed to Mrs. Walter E. Walker, Fort Edward, NY, US Navy. He discusses how the war has changed him, things will be better when he returns, and his duties as a mail censor. He describes how one soldier became angry at him for censoring his letter. A photograph of sailors wearing traditional Hawaiian women's clothing is included.","Letters from Cpl. Jerome \"Jerry\" H. Lein, England and Germany, to his wife, Mrs. Jerome H. Lein, and son, in Brooklyn, NY. The letters dated from November 1944 to July 1945 discuss family affairs and soldier life in England, France, and Germany.","This folder contains additional letters from Cpl. Jerome \"Jerry\" H. Lein, England and Germany, to his wife, Mrs. Jerome H. Lein, and son, in Brooklyn, NY.","This folder contains letters from William P. Eschborn, Air Corps Technical School, Keesler Field, Miss., to Miss Anita \"Dude\" Lindner, Buffalo, NY. He discusses training school, the war, and his sadness and shock about the death of Lucy, her sister.","The letters from William P. Eschborn, [at various air training bases in the USA], to Miss Anita Lindner, Buffalo, NY, USAF, discuss how pilot training functions and how the Army wants better trained pilots, not just people who can \"take off and land.\" He speaks of his anticipation to get involved in the war.","This folder contains incoming correspondence to Anita Lindner concerning the sudden and unexpected death of her sister, Lucy, in 1943.","The letters from Hugh E. Smith, Naval Air Station, Dutch Harbor, AK to Miss Jessie Hatter, Harrisburg, PA, talk of local happenings and discuss life in school. Some letters are written on USN letterhead, one with a drawing of the Seabees logo.","This folder contains letters from Francis X. Schwartz, India and Palm Springs, CA, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Schwartz, Philadelphia. Schwartz was a member of the US Army Air Corps. His letters ask about life at home and of family and friends. He notes that cigarettes are cheap there, flying is \"swell\", and that he had a great time in Beverly Hills.","The folder contains V-mail letters from Cpl. James W. Lindley, San Francisco, CA, to Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Taylor, Baldwin, Miss., and to Miss Ann Lindley, Aberdeen, Miss.\nIn the letter to the Taylors, he writes, \"I'm sad to hear Ira Taylor got killed. I don't think Germany will last much longer, and the Japanese not much longer after that.\" He talk of family and the war. In the letter to Lindley, he writes, \"We hiked ten miles today and I'm tired. I have athlete's foot. Some of these fellows have been knocking off Japs'.\"","The letter from Roby T. Johnson, USS South Dakota, to Mr. Carl A. Johnson, W. Medford, MA. US Navy, discusses military life aboard ship.","The letter from PFC Joseph Rodgers, Europe, to Mrs. George Stump, Columbus, Ohio. USAF. Discusses family and home. He writes, \"I saw Churchill when he was over here, he is sure a little fat guy.\"","The letter from Rita Sheroin, Tampa, FL, to Richard A. Boudman, Maxwell Field, AL, discusses movies she has seen and her schooling.","The folder contains letters from A/T Ted M. Czerniak, Naples Airfield, FL, to Miss Helen Czerniak, Philadelphia, PA, as well as a letter to  Mrs. Mary Czerniak, Philadelphia, PA.","The letter from \"Virginia\", Memphis Tenn., to 1st Lt. Arthur L. Barnes, Lubbock Army Flying School, TX conveys the news that that Bill was killed in North Africa. She is thinking seriously about joining the WAACS after the baby is born.","This folder contains documents, including registration cards, relating to Jacob Goldberg's induction. In a letter from J. Mahony, Chief Clerk, USA Selective Service System, Bronx, NY, to Jacob Goldberg, Bronx, NY, dated October. 6, 1943, Mahony informs Goldberg that the Local Board has refused to reopen his case. He must report for induction as previously directed.","SSgt. Richard \"Dick\" W. Rockett, Camp Clairborne, LA, to G. J. Sizemore, Dallas, TX, US Army, discusses his military experiences. He enlisted in the old Battery A, now Co. A. 104 Infantry Battalion Anti-Tank. He discusses his experiences cooking in the mess hall and was promoted to Private First Class. This folder includes newspaper clippings of Mrs. P.H. Adams' four boys.","Papers relating to Glen J. Sizemore, including cigarette ration cards, a photograph, a Navy pay receipt, a special liberty request, and letters from Roy Lee Sizemore to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX. US Navy. The personal letters from Roy Lee Sizemore, aboard the USS Rigel, to Glen J. Sizemore, US Naval Air Station, Dallas, TX, discuss Roy's recommendation that Glen pursue a job with a sheet-metal company based in Honolulu. Roy is glad to be aboard the Rigel because it is \"the least regulation ship in the Navy.\" The Rigel is a repair ship and seldom goes to sea. \"It gets rather monotonous, just putting in a day.\" He also writes, \"It is always bad to try and mix civilian workmen and enlisted men and expect to get any work done.\"","The letter from Jessie M. Wimberly, aboard the USS Boxer in the Yellow Sea, to G. 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