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General Assembly. House of Delegates","Account books","Correspondence","Manuscripts (document genre)","10,764.00 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.","Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1 contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and Series 5 contains manuscript volumes. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into series and then subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names, then by individual name and finally by date. Also available on microfilm University Publications of America.","Additional information may be found at: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00045.frame","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.","The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. 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Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAustin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eLetters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e72 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by Archibald Austin, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e111 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e513 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026amp; Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026amp; Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026amp; Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026amp; Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026amp; Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026amp; Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026amp; Tennessee Railroad).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026amp; Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026amp; Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026amp; Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026amp; Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026amp; Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026amp; Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026amp; Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026amp; Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026amp; Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026amp; Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026amp; Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e218 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026amp; Agee which may force the sale of her land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e390 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026amp; Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e383 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026amp; Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e229 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Nellie [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail because ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026amp; undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e219 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026amp; Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026amp; Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026amp; Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026amp; Johnson, [n. p.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026amp; Rea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026amp; Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026amp; Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026amp; McCorkle, Simpson \u0026amp; Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026amp; Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026amp; Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026amp; Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e74 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e71 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e94 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e69 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e78 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e302 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e86 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e223 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e75 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e250 items. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e118 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e87 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e106 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e161 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e164 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e173 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. 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Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book of William Adams and his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. 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include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. 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Photographic copy of 1856 hydrographic survey of the James River in vicinity of Jamestown. Yonge's map of James City, V.A., 1607-1698.","Two manuscript notebooks containing memos from land patent records of James City Island. Printed works: Government Report Upon the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors in the Norfolk, Virginia District, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926. Jamestown and James River souvenir booklets, A Brief History of and Guide Book to Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. Rutherford Goodwin, 1930. Official Guide Book Jamestown Centennial Exposition, 1907. Notes on a Journey on the James, 1907. Report of Investigation with Reference to Improving the James River Technical Advisory Corp., 1924. James River from the Head of the Tidewater to Hampton Roads as a National Waterway, 1886.","A volume of newspaper clippings, 1898-1935, of persons, homes, places, and events of historic interest. 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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.","Organization: This collection has been organized into 2 series: Series 1 includes Personal and Business Correspondence, and Series 2 includes an Autograph Collection. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into 2 series which are then broken down into subseries. 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Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87","Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63","Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91","Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba","The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. 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Johnston of Abington, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".","Scope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"","Scope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.","Scope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.","Scope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.","Scope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.","Scope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.","Scope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.","Scope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.","Scope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.","Scope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.","Scope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.","Scope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.","Scope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".","Scope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.","Scope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.","Scope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.","Scope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.","Scope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.","Scope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.","Scope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.","Scope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.","Scope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.","Scope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.","Scope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"","Scope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.","Scope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.","Scope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.","Scope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.","Scope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery","Scope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.","Scope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.","Scope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.","Scope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.","Scope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.","Scope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.","Scope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"","Scope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.","Scope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].","Scope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.","Scope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.","Scope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.","Scope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.","Scope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.","Scope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.","Scope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.","Scope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.","Scope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.","Scope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.","Scope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.","Scope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.","Scope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.","Scope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".","Scope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.","Scope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.","Scope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.","Scope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.","Concerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].","Scope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.","Scope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.","Scope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.","Scope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.","Scope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.","Scope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.","Scope and Contents Recognizance of debt.","Scope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.","Scope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.","Scope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.","Printed Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.","Scope and Contents Is sending another photograph.","Acknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]","Scope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.","Scope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.","Scope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.","Scope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.","Pass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.","Scope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.","PCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.","Scope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.","Scope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.","Scope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.","Scope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.","Scope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.","Scope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.","Scope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.","Lay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.","Signature. C.S.","Scope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.","Scope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.","Scope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.","Scope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.","Scope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.","Scope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".","Scope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.","Scope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.","Scope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].","Scope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.","Scope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"","Scope and Contents Document. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Printed Document.","Contains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.","William Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. Printed Material.","Printed Material.","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","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia","Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Robert Morton Hughes Papers, 1715/1940, bulk 1871/1933"],"collection_ssim":["Robert Morton Hughes Papers, 1715/1940, bulk 1871/1933"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 H88","/repositories/2/resources/8562"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 H88","/repositories/2/resources/8562"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Hughes, Robert Morton"],"creator_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia"],"creators_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia"],"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."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Autographs","Legal documents","United States--Lawyers","Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Autographs","Legal documents","United States--Lawyers","Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["240 items"],"extent_ssm":["1.50 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["1.50 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"date_range_isim":[1715,1716,1717,1718,1719,1720,1721,1722,1723,1724,1725,1726,1727,1728,1729,1730,1731,1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739,1740,1741,1742,1743,1744,1745,1746,1747,1748,1749,1750,1751,1752,1753,1754,1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There are five collections within the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this collection. They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.","John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59","Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87","Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63","Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91","Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba","The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1871-1933, of Robert Morton Hughes of Norfolk, Virginia, concerning his law practice; his interest in maritime law; his biography of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; his influence in Virginia politics; and the College of William and Mary. Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Addition to Box 1, Folder 4\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declines an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFranked envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFranked envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Recognizance of debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is sending another photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSignature. C.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document. In Spanish.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.","Addition to Box 1, Folder 4","\"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".","Scope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"","Scope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.","Scope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.","Scope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.","Scope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.","Scope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.","Scope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.","Scope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.","Scope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.","Scope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.","Scope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.","Scope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.","Scope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".","Scope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.","Scope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.","Scope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.","Scope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.","Scope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.","Scope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.","Scope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.","Scope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.","Scope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.","Scope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.","Scope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"","Scope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.","Scope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.","Scope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.","Scope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.","Scope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery","Scope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.","Scope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.","Scope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.","Scope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.","Scope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.","Scope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.","Scope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"","Scope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.","Scope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].","Scope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.","Scope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.","Scope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.","Scope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.","Scope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.","Scope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.","Scope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.","Scope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.","Scope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.","Scope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.","Scope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.","Scope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.","Scope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.","Scope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".","Scope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.","Scope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.","Scope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.","Scope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.","Concerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].","Scope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.","Scope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.","Scope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.","Scope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.","Scope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.","Scope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.","Scope and Contents Recognizance of debt.","Scope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.","Scope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.","Scope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.","Printed Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.","Scope and Contents Is sending another photograph.","Acknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]","Scope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.","Scope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.","Scope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.","Scope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.","Pass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.","Scope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.","PCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.","Scope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.","Scope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.","Scope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.","Scope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.","Scope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.","Scope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.","Scope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.","Lay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.","Signature. C.S.","Scope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.","Scope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.","Scope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.","Scope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.","Scope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.","Scope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".","Scope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.","Scope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.","Scope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].","Scope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.","Scope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"","Scope and Contents Document. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Printed Document.","Contains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.","William Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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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. 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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.","Organization: This collection has been organized into 2 series: Series 1 includes Personal and Business Correspondence, and Series 2 includes an Autograph Collection. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into 2 series which are then broken down into subseries. Series 1 is arranged by date and Series 2 is arranged alphabetically.","Gift: 237 items, 1940.","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00087.frame","There are five collections within the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this collection. They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.","John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59","Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87","Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63","Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91","Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba","The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7","Papers, 1871-1933, of Robert Morton Hughes of Norfolk, Virginia, concerning his law practice; his interest in maritime law; his biography of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; his influence in Virginia politics; and the College of William and Mary. Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.","Addition to Box 1, Folder 4","\"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".","Scope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"","Scope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.","Scope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.","Scope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.","Scope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.","Scope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.","Scope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.","Scope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.","Scope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.","Scope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.","Scope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.","Scope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.","Scope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".","Scope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.","Scope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.","Scope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.","Scope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.","Scope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.","Scope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.","Scope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.","Scope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.","Scope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.","Scope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.","Scope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"","Scope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.","Scope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.","Scope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.","Scope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.","Scope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery","Scope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.","Scope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.","Scope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.","Scope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.","Scope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.","Scope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.","Scope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"","Scope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.","Scope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].","Scope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.","Scope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.","Scope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.","Scope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.","Scope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.","Scope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.","Scope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.","Scope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.","Scope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.","Scope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.","Scope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.","Scope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.","Scope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.","Scope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".","Scope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.","Scope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.","Scope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.","Scope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.","Concerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].","Scope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.","Scope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.","Scope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.","Scope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.","Scope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.","Scope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.","Scope and Contents Recognizance of debt.","Scope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.","Scope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.","Scope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.","Printed Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.","Scope and Contents Is sending another photograph.","Acknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]","Scope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.","Scope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.","Scope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.","Scope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.","Pass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.","Scope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.","PCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.","Scope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.","Scope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.","Scope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.","Scope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.","Scope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.","Scope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.","Scope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.","Lay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.","Signature. C.S.","Scope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.","Scope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.","Scope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.","Scope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.","Scope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.","Scope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".","Scope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.","Scope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.","Scope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].","Scope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.","Scope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"","Scope and Contents Document. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Printed Document.","Contains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.","William Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. Printed Material.","Printed Material.","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","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia","Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Robert Morton Hughes Papers, 1715/1940, bulk 1871/1933"],"collection_ssim":["Robert Morton Hughes Papers, 1715/1940, bulk 1871/1933"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 H88","/repositories/2/resources/8562"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 H88","/repositories/2/resources/8562"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Hughes, Robert Morton"],"creator_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia"],"creators_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia"],"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."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Autographs","Legal documents","United States--Lawyers","Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Autographs","Legal documents","United States--Lawyers","Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["240 items"],"extent_ssm":["1.50 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["1.50 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"date_range_isim":[1715,1716,1717,1718,1719,1720,1721,1722,1723,1724,1725,1726,1727,1728,1729,1730,1731,1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739,1740,1741,1742,1743,1744,1745,1746,1747,1748,1749,1750,1751,1752,1753,1754,1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. 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Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63","Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91","Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba","The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1871-1933, of Robert Morton Hughes of Norfolk, Virginia, concerning his law practice; his interest in maritime law; his biography of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; his influence in Virginia politics; and the College of William and Mary. Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Addition to Box 1, Folder 4\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declines an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFranked envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFranked envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Recognizance of debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is sending another photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSignature. C.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document. In Spanish.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.","Addition to Box 1, Folder 4","\"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".","Scope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"","Scope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.","Scope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.","Scope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.","Scope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.","Scope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.","Scope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.","Scope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.","Scope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.","Scope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.","Scope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.","Scope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.","Scope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".","Scope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.","Scope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.","Scope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.","Scope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.","Scope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.","Scope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.","Scope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.","Scope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.","Scope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.","Scope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.","Scope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"","Scope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.","Scope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.","Scope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.","Scope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.","Scope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery","Scope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.","Scope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.","Scope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.","Scope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.","Scope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.","Scope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.","Scope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"","Scope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.","Scope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].","Scope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.","Scope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.","Scope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.","Scope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.","Scope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.","Scope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.","Scope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.","Scope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.","Scope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.","Scope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.","Scope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.","Scope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.","Scope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.","Scope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".","Scope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.","Scope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.","Scope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.","Scope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.","Concerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].","Scope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.","Scope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.","Scope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.","Scope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.","Scope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.","Scope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.","Scope and Contents Recognizance of debt.","Scope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.","Scope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.","Scope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.","Printed Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.","Scope and Contents Is sending another photograph.","Acknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]","Scope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.","Scope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.","Scope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.","Scope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.","Pass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.","Scope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.","PCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.","Scope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.","Scope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.","Scope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.","Scope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.","Scope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.","Scope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.","Scope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.","Lay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.","Signature. C.S.","Scope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.","Scope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.","Scope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.","Scope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.","Scope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.","Scope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".","Scope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.","Scope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.","Scope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].","Scope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.","Scope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"","Scope and Contents Document. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Printed Document.","Contains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.","William Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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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.","Organization: This collection has been organized into 2 series: Series 1 includes Personal and Business Correspondence, and Series 2 includes an Autograph Collection. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into 2 series which are then broken down into subseries. Series 1 is arranged by date and Series 2 is arranged alphabetically.","Gift: 237 items, 1940.","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00087.frame","There are five collections within the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this collection. They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.","John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59","Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87","Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63","Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91","Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba","The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7","Papers, 1871-1933, of Robert Morton Hughes of Norfolk, Virginia, concerning his law practice; his interest in maritime law; his biography of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; his influence in Virginia politics; and the College of William and Mary. Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.","Addition to Box 1, Folder 4","\"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".","Scope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"","Scope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.","Scope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.","Scope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.","Scope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.","Scope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.","Scope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.","Scope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.","Scope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.","Scope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.","Scope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.","Scope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.","Scope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".","Scope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.","Scope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.","Scope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.","Scope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.","Scope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.","Scope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.","Scope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.","Scope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.","Scope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.","Scope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.","Scope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"","Scope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.","Scope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.","Scope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.","Scope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.","Scope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery","Scope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.","Scope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.","Scope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.","Scope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.","Scope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.","Scope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.","Scope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"","Scope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.","Scope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].","Scope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.","Scope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.","Scope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.","Scope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.","Scope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.","Scope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.","Scope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.","Scope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.","Scope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.","Scope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.","Scope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.","Scope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.","Scope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.","Scope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".","Scope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.","Scope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.","Scope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.","Scope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.","Concerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].","Scope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.","Scope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.","Scope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.","Scope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.","Scope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.","Scope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.","Scope and Contents Recognizance of debt.","Scope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.","Scope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.","Scope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.","Printed Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.","Scope and Contents Is sending another photograph.","Acknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]","Scope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.","Scope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.","Scope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.","Scope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.","Pass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.","Scope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.","PCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.","Scope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.","Scope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.","Scope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.","Scope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.","Scope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.","Scope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.","Scope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.","Lay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.","Signature. C.S.","Scope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.","Scope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.","Scope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.","Scope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.","Scope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.","Scope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".","Scope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.","Scope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.","Scope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].","Scope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.","Scope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"","Scope and Contents Document. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Printed Document.","Contains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.","William Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There are five collections within the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this collection. They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.","John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59","Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87","Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63","Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91","Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba","The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1871-1933, of Robert Morton Hughes of Norfolk, Virginia, concerning his law practice; his interest in maritime law; his biography of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; his influence in Virginia politics; and the College of William and Mary. Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Addition to Box 1, Folder 4\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declines an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFranked envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFranked envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Recognizance of debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is sending another photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSignature. C.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document. In Spanish.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.","Addition to Box 1, Folder 4","\"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".","Scope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"","Scope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.","Scope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.","Scope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.","Scope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.","Scope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.","Scope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.","Scope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.","Scope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.","Scope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.","Scope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.","Scope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.","Scope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".","Scope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.","Scope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.","Scope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.","Scope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.","Scope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.","Scope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.","Scope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.","Scope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.","Scope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.","Scope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.","Scope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"","Scope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.","Scope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.","Scope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.","Scope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.","Scope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery","Scope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.","Scope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.","Scope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.","Scope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.","Scope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.","Scope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.","Scope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"","Scope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.","Scope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].","Scope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.","Scope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.","Scope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.","Scope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.","Scope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.","Scope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.","Scope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.","Scope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.","Scope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.","Scope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.","Scope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.","Scope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.","Scope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.","Scope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".","Scope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.","Scope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.","Scope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.","Scope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.","Concerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].","Scope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.","Scope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.","Scope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.","Scope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.","Scope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.","Scope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.","Scope and Contents Recognizance of debt.","Scope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.","Scope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.","Scope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.","Printed Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.","Scope and Contents Is sending another photograph.","Acknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]","Scope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.","Scope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.","Scope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.","Scope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.","Pass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.","Scope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.","PCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.","Scope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.","Scope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.","Scope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.","Scope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.","Scope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.","Scope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.","Scope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.","Lay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.","Signature. C.S.","Scope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.","Scope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.","Scope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.","Scope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.","Scope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.","Scope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".","Scope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.","Scope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.","Scope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].","Scope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.","Scope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"","Scope and Contents Document. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Printed Document.","Contains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.","William Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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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.","Organization: This collection has been organized into 2 series: Series 1 includes Personal and Business Correspondence, and Series 2 includes an Autograph Collection. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into 2 series which are then broken down into subseries. Series 1 is arranged by date and Series 2 is arranged alphabetically.","Gift: 237 items, 1940.","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00087.frame","There are five collections within the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that relate to this collection. They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.","John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59","Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87","Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63","Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91","Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba","The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7","Papers, 1871-1933, of Robert Morton Hughes of Norfolk, Virginia, concerning his law practice; his interest in maritime law; his biography of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; his influence in Virginia politics; and the College of William and Mary. Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.","Addition to Box 1, Folder 4","\"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".","Scope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"","Scope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.","Scope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.","Scope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.","Scope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.","Scope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.","Scope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.","Scope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.","Scope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.","Scope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.","Scope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.","Scope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.","Scope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".","Scope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.","Scope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.","Scope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.","Scope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.","Scope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.","Scope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.","Scope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.","Scope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.","Scope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.","Scope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.","Scope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"","Scope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.","Scope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.","Scope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.","Scope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.","Scope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery","Scope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.","Scope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.","Scope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.","Scope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.","Scope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.","Scope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.","Scope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"","Scope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.","Scope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].","Scope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.","Scope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.","Scope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.","Scope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.","Scope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.","Scope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.","Scope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.","Scope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.","Scope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.","Scope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.","Scope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.","Scope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.","Scope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.","Scope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".","Scope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.","Scope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.","Scope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.","Scope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.","Concerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].","Scope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.","Scope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.","Scope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.","Scope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.","Scope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.","Scope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.","Scope and Contents Recognizance of debt.","Scope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.","Scope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.","Scope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.","Printed Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.","Scope and Contents Is sending another photograph.","Acknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]","Scope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.","Scope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.","Scope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.","Scope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.","Pass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.","Scope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.","PCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.","Scope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.","Scope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.","Scope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.","Scope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.","Scope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.","Scope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.","Scope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.","Lay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.","Signature. C.S.","Scope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.","Scope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.","Scope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.","Scope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.","Scope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.","Scope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".","Scope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.","Scope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.","Scope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].","Scope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.","Scope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"","Scope and Contents Document. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Printed Document.","Contains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.","William Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. Printed Material.","Printed Material.","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","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia","Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Robert Morton Hughes Papers, 1715/1940, bulk 1871/1933"],"collection_ssim":["Robert Morton Hughes Papers, 1715/1940, bulk 1871/1933"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 H88","/repositories/2/resources/8562"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 H88","/repositories/2/resources/8562"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Hughes, Robert Morton"],"creator_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia"],"creators_ssim":["Hughes, Robert Morton","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","University of Virginia"],"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."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Autographs","Legal documents","United States--Lawyers","Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Autographs","Legal documents","United States--Lawyers","Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["240 items"],"extent_ssm":["1.50 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["1.50 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Autograph albums","Correspondence"],"date_range_isim":[1715,1716,1717,1718,1719,1720,1721,1722,1723,1724,1725,1726,1727,1728,1729,1730,1731,1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739,1740,1741,1742,1743,1744,1745,1746,1747,1748,1749,1750,1751,1752,1753,1754,1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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They include the John B. Floyd Papers, the Robert W. Hughes Papers, the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, the Preston Family Papers, and the Virginia Bar Examination Papers. The Library of Robert William Hughes is also available in the rare book section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John B. Floyd Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. John Buchanan Floyd Papers, 1831-1863, 1850- 1863. 72 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 F59\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert W. Hughes, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Robert W. Hughes Papers, 1818-1900. 103 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.2 H87\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. 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Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891. 264 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 J63","Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836. 90 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 P91","Virginia Bar Examination Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Virginia Bar Examination Papers, 1900- 1923. 1,306 items. Collection Number: Mss. 39.1 V81ba","The library belonging to Robert William Hughes is located at the Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Another related collection is the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, located in Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University. This collection in significant because of the correspondence and other papers originally belonging to several of Hughes' relatives including Judge Robert W. Hughes, Governor John B. Floyd, and General Joseph E. Johnston. The collection also contains personal and political correspondence regarding Robert Morton Hughes' legal practice, involvement in Virginia politics, activities in support of education, longtime association with the College of William and Mary, and service on the State Board of Education and the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Public Library. The William and Mary collection of Robert Morton Hughes Papers compliments and does not duplicate the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, Special Collections, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Papers of Robert Morton Hughes, 1767- 1959.39 Hollinger Flat Boxes; 5 Hollinger Oversized Boxes and Additional Bound Volumes. Collection number: MG-7"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1871-1933, of Robert Morton Hughes of Norfolk, Virginia, concerning his law practice; his interest in maritime law; his biography of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; his influence in Virginia politics; and the College of William and Mary. Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Addition to Box 1, Folder 4\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declines an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFranked envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFranked envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Recognizance of debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is sending another photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSignature. C.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Document. In Spanish.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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Correspondents include Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Nelson Page, Woodrow Wilson, Flora (Cooke) Stuart and Theodore Roosevelt. There is also an autograph collection, 1715-1924, which includes signatures of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Hanna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel L. Clemens and presidents of the United States.","Addition to Box 1, Folder 4","\"Genesis of the F.F.V.,\" a typed draft of a letter to the editor by Robert M. Hughes (with footnotes), \"Horse-Power in Historyquot; by Robert M. Hughes, a typed draft, a February 4, 1935 letter from Mae White (Mrs. William) Freeman to Robert M. Hughes thanking him for their visit to his library and a tax receipt for Charles C. Johnston of Abington, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Discusses and compares Floyd Hughes' mental capabilities to those of his brother [Robert M. Hughes], and how he would fare at the \"University\".","Scope and Contents Mention of the irregularity of mail in the southern states; is pleased that he and his brother, Floyd, will be enrolled at William and Mary College[sic] at the same time; tells of an \"old and valued\"friend, Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, who is president of the College; he will mention to Ewell their presence at the College; assumes that their Cousin, Mrs. Munford, will also be available for help; is pleased that he has \"been applying [himself] to Modern Languages.\"","Scope and Contents Regretfully refusing position as Orator of the Washington and Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Would appreciate Hughes' proofreading his second edition of Shipping  Admiralty.","Scope and Contents Concerning admiralty cases.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks for work done.","Scope and Contents Is returning Hughes' article as it cannot be published for several weeks.","Scope and Contents Concerns a copy of the report of the Board on Fortifications or other Defenses Endicott wished sent to R. M. Hughes. Including Autograph Note Signed from John W. Daniel, to [?], April 30, 1886, requesting that the report be forwarded to Hughes.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges invitation if visiting Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to visit.","Scope and Contents Concerning the trial of Directors of the Glasgow Bank. Including a note from Robert W. Hughes, to Robby (Robert M. Hughes), undated, directing him to respond to Judge Sage's letter.","Scope and Contents Discusses various tax reforms in different states, including Connecticut and New York, and how they are faring.","Scope and Contents Concerning case of Harris Rogers vs. Garland Johnston  others.","Scope and Contents Regrets that he will not be attending the meeting of the Virginia Bar Association this year because he will be getting married.","Scope and Contents Accepts invitation to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Market and Connory Building on the centennial anniversary of Norfolk Lodge Number 1.","Scope and Contents Written on printed circular from the War Department. Autograph Letter Signed. Asks Hughes to loan the government any Confederate Papers he knows of for the official government publication of the records of the Civil War.","Scope and Contents Concerning Gen. Johnston's papers and his biography.","Scope and Contents Concerning a memoir of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents As Hughes requested, sends a report of what he saw and did at the first battle of Manassas. Including Autograph Manuscript Signed by Tho[ma]s L. Preston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, undated, giving report of \"first battle of Manassas.\" 13 pages.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a copy of Hughes' address delivered at the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on favorable reviews of his biography of Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J.E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of copy of Hughes' college address. Has sent it to the University of North Carolina Library.","Scope and Contents Concerning Hughes' biography of Gen. Johnston, and issues surrounding the writing and publishing of a \"Life of Lee\".","Scope and Contents Has received his letter of the 19th; refers to controversy surrounding the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary; holds him in high esteem.","Scope and Contents Hughes' letter of request for the Board of Trustees of E[mory]  H[enry] Collegewas not received before they adjourned; therefore, it was not considered.","Scope and Contents Congratulates Hughes on his recent election as President of the Bar Association of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Enclosing the order in the libel case; the report \"connecting my name with the nomination to political office, is without my sanction...\"; and expressing appreciation of your kind offer.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes to make a speech.","Scope and Contents Requests that a letter be written to President McKinley asking him to appoint Henry Bowen[?] of Tazewell to Marshall of the Western District of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy. Card formally acknowledging receipt of verses sent by Hughes and declining to set them to music.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Discusses a problem with Professor Graves of the Law School.","Scope and Contents Concerning thanks from senior law class for a highly interesting course of lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerning an invitation to speak before the Phi Beta Kappa at Williamsburg; and Page's attempt to secure a church for his brother to serve in as a preacher in the area near his home.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Discusses the ceremony used in conferring degrees at Princeton.","Scope and Contents Asks for a copy of the biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Requests Hughes' assistance in obtaining a position in the Norfolk post office for her niece, Ellen Seawell.","Scope and Contents Glad that Hughes agrees with them on the sufficiency of just two examinations.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Returning a manuscript of William Campbell which was repaired at the Library.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' life of J. E. Johnston and speaks of General J. E. B. Stuart's relations with him. Encloses some papers, \"culled from many.\" Including an Autograph Note Signed from J. E. B. Stuart, near Gainesville, Virginia, to [Flora (Cooke) Stuart], 25 June 1863, stating that \"All well on the warpath.\"","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Appoints Robert M. Hughes a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia for a two-year term.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Sends printers proofs of a newspaper article written by Cameron which mentions Hughes's father.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning Hughes' biography of General [Joseph E.] Johnston.","Scope and Contents Sorry he missed Hughes' son's call, and hopes he \"will give me the chance of making his acquaintance.\"","Scope and Contents Concerning a method of preserving autograph letters and documents.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a copy of \"Maritime Liens.\"\"","Scope and Contents Thanking him for a monograph on maritime liens.","Scope and Contents Returns to Hughes his letter of the 27th, and suggests that it would be better not to have it published.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his kind invitation, but has to decline due to the vast amount of work needed to be done on the proposed tariff revision; also discusses a newly elected Senator from Mississippi, [John Sharp] Williams, whose term doesn't begin until 4 March 1911, due to the fact that the Legislature of Mississippi convenes only every four years.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his monograph, and will try to secure a copy for himself.","Scope and Contents Desires information about John B. Floyd for a paper on the seals and flag of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Gives title of certain volume, and who published it.","Scope and Contents Discusses the various legalities relating to suit being filed under the Arbitration Agreement.","Scope and Contents Returns two letters of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston which were submitted for publication.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter relating to the maintenance of actions for death on the high seas; doubts that Senate will act on it this session due to most of their time being spent on the ship purchase bill.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter of 22 January with enclosure, and promises to give it due consideration.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges receipt of Hughes' views on pending legislation.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a card to admit him to the privileges of the Virginia Club at Norfolk.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Encloses letter of German Ambassador [Count Bernstorff] to Lt. Hans Berg. Including a Typewritten Letter Signed from Count Bernstorff, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., to Lieutenant Hans Berg, S. M. S. Appam, Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 1916, containing copies of the communications sent to and received from the Foreign office of the German Government at Berlin by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, Concerning the Appam case. 3 pages.","Scope and Contents Thanking him for document sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanking him for pamphlets sent.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerning arrival of biography of General Joseph E. Johnston.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes for his letter.","Scope and Contents Relates to the addition of General Joseph E. Johnston to the group to be memorialized at Stone Mountain, [Georgia].","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Thanks Hughes personally and officially for his \"liberal treatment of the College of William and Mary.\"","Scope and Contents Has completed his lectures on \"Statesmen and Soldiers of the American Civil War\"at Cambridge.","Scope and Contents Concerning high honor conferred on him by the College of William and Mary.","Scope and Contents Thanks Hughes for his letter and the information concerning Mr. [?] Sargeant.","Scope and Contents Concerns articles on the relief of the Supreme Court published in The Independent.","Scope and Contents Inquiry into acts governing the harbor masters of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Concerns the political situation in Massachusetts and the nation.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Order to pay 19.8.2 pounds to the heirs of Charles Anthony, deceased, late a private in Col. Bradford's Regiment, to make good the depreciation of his wages to the time of his death. Including Autograph Note Signed onverso. Receipt of James Sproat, 21 June 1794.","Scope and Contents Concerns recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe at Norfolk, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document Signed. for $90.00 for \"searching for, finding, attending on, feeding, and bringing into Fort Myers\" a drummer boy who was lost for eight days. Witnessed by William H. French, Capt. 1st Artillery Brevet Major, and S.F. Chalfin, 1st Lt., 1st Artillery","Scope and Contents Wants to get together; describes itinerary for the rest of the month; tells of a gallon of whiskey sent by Jno. Rankins, and his enjoyment thereof.","Scope and Contents Declines an invitation for his daughter, Ella, to visit \"Miss Ella\"because she must return to Miss Belle [Pears'] school.","Scope and Contents Order to and report of Board of Survey concerning damages done to Long's property by Confederate troops. Including an Autograph Document, by [N. Long] and endorsement by Buckner, undated, estimating damages done to Long's factory, field, and farm.","Scope and Contents Concerning suits against Solomon Lathrop.","Scope and Contents Declining an invitation and commenting on power and corruption.","Scope and Contents Glad Burr will go South with him; will leave soon after the Senatorial election.","Scope and Contents Warrant for return of a fugitive, Alexander Bogart, alias Alexander Bogart McCloed, to Edward N. Allen, agent of the Commonwealth. Signed also by Jno. B. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth.","Scope and Contents Hopes Ogilvy found the book \"of which the missing has caused me the most poignant uneasiness.\"","Scope and Contents Gives the full title of the case in South Carolina referred to in his notes.","Scope and Contents Requests that Boutelle stop by his lodging as it is important to see him.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Gratified to receive Lyons' letter, and expresses his exasperation if a victory were lost due to internal dissention or lack of hearty cooperation [referring to his third presidential campaign].","Scope and Contents Concerning the health of [his wife] Mary, Robbie, and Cooke's own hay fever; the progress of his writings of the Revolution; comments on the pain of growing old and his love for Sister Mary and Overton.","Scope and Contents Concerning his unsolicited appointment as a Representative of the University in Parliament, his duties and responsibilities there, and his resignation upon being called up to the House of Lords.","Scope and Contents Fragment of Letter Signed. Requests that certain work be done in the army - pay the officers, report on the absence of men from their duties.","Scope and Contents Accepts tentatively an invitation to visit two literary societies at the University of Virginia.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Authorization for payment. In Italian.","Scope and Contents Concerning momentary military situation near Hagerstown, Maryland.","Scope and Contents Printed Document Signed. Appointment as Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the felony trial of Stepney, a Negro slave belonging to Robert Ballard.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges his election as an honorary member of the New York Rhetorical Society.","Franked envelope.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regarding the Finor Canal. In German.","Scope and Contents Mentions that he [Froude] will be in Oxford on the 30th for the Exeter Gaudy; also a comment concerning a manuscript which was not allowed to be removed from the Bodleian.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Declines invitation to speak at Gettysburg on Decoration Day.","Scope and Contents Is not acquainted with any of the aforementioned Greek works.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Requests the return of Reuben Smith, now resident in Perry County, Kentucky, a fugitive from justice in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Hopes Myers has taken possession of Girard's land on the Eastern Shore and procured a purchaser. Gives prices of various commodities.","Scope and Contents Mentions coming for a visit, needing \"absolute quiet\"for a week or two; hopes the buttercups will be blooming in Williamsburg before long.","Scope and Contents Requests that a family annual for 1898 be sent to him at his home in Atlanta.","Scope and Contents Comments on an article which provoked General Imboden, published in the Virginia State Journal.","Scope and Contents Is sending barrels of rice to meet a debt. Requests Storke to return balance in cash.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of a genealogy of the Watkins family and comments on members of the Watkins and Morton families.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. List of land and houses at Port Tobacco, Piscataway and Benedict, in Prince Georges and Charles counties, Maryland, belonging to James Gordon and others, surviving partners of John Glassford  Co., on 31 December 1777, which was confiscated and sold as British property.","Scope and Contents Newsy note describing a visit with old friends and a trip to Paris, [France] made by Eliza.","Scope and Contents Thank you for the oysters which were \"very fine\".","Scope and Contents Concerning invitation of the bar Association and his choice of topic for a speech.","Scope and Contents Concerns land sold by him to Capt. William Evans, for which a receipt was delivered to Harrison's overseer, Edmund Borrom, and the bond for which was transferred to James Eason. Also concerns wheat bought by Evans and delivered to John Goodrich's vessel.","Scope and Contents Apologizes for a misunderstanding dealing with an invitation to attend a meeting of the Trustees of the State Fund for the Education of Freedmen.","Scope and Contents Squelches rumor of review because of the difficulties of long marching; family news.","Concerning a discussion with the Secretary of War about a military arrangement for the gratification of the people of the Southwest; arm and men of the Confederate government; and the President [Jefferson Davis].","Scope and Contents Regrets that he must cancel a lecturing engagement at Buffalo, New York because of illness.","Scope and Contents Autograph Letter. Declines an invitation.","Scope and Contents Concerning request for autographs of famous men, from letters of Hopkinson's father.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. At the suggestion of R.W. Hughes, writes to request a memorandum regarding the campaign of Gen. John B. Floyd in Western Virginia in 1861 for a history of the war he is preparing.","Scope and Contents Concerning a letter of introduction for William C. Preston.","Scope and Contents Sends an enclosed account of \"The Battle of Mobley's Meeting House\"South Carolina in June 1780.","Scope and Contents Recommends Samuel Myers of Richmond for a position in the Treasury Department.","Scope and Contents Concerning the Nicholson-Burwell courtship as a possible topic of a novel or story.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of an autograph book for his use. Will be able to add to her collection.","Scope and Contents Concerns a means of conserving water in Hawaii by the use of pumps.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Sprague's address on George Washington.","Scope and Contents Recognizance of debt.","Scope and Contents Concerning Congress and mention of their circular letter relative to the treaty with Britain.","Scope and Contents Gives genealogy information of the Watkins family.","Scope and Contents Document Signed. Autograph Document Signed on verso, 28 June 1861, certifying that Waite took requisite oaths in Greenbrier County, Virginia before Charles R. Hines, Justice of the Peace. Also ADS on verso, 15 September 1861, by Samuel C. Waite, resigning his commission as Sr. 2nd Lieutenant in Company G of the 22nd Regiment Virginia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mr. Elijah McClanahan and his business contract, and Lewis' willingness to serve as an agent in Indian Affairs preferably with the Chickasaws and the Creeks.","Scope and Contents Requests information about a revision of the Virginia's statutes, published in 1848. Desires to send a copy to a German jurist and statesman.","Printed Document Signed. Also signed by Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Oversize.","Scope and Contents Is sending another photograph.","Acknowledges receipt of a case of wine. [This is not the last letter written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Samuel Longfellow, ed., Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with extracts from his journals and correspondence, Boston, 1886, Vol. II, p.471]","Scope and Contents Copy of Signed by John Madison, father of a Bishop James Madison.","Scope and Contents Bill of complaint in suit against James Kennedy, Jr., and James Cavan, late merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, for debt. Autograph Note Signed on verso, undated, giving findings of the jury for the plaintiff, Warwick, signed by Bernard Markham.","Scope and Contents Concerning Mason's position as minister to France for the U.S., Mr. Buchanan's election, and Mason's \"abrupt, voluntary retirement\"from the position; negotiations concerning maritime rights; and deep friendship with Wise.","Scope and Contents Acknowledges contribution to assist the Irish during the Famine.","Scope and Contents Concerns genealogy of the Watkins family. Including Autograph Letter Signed from William Meade, Mellwood, Clark Co., Virginia, to [Francis Watkins?], March 13, 1860, concerning the forwarding of the letter.","Scope and Contents Concerning Thomas and Robert Sully, and the latter's studio in Richmond.","Pass to admit two to the First Pres[byterian]Church all the month of March. Signature.","Scope and Contents Requests transfer from Company C, 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. Approved by John L. Moore, Captain, Comapny C. 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and by Walton Ector, Col., 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.","Scope and Contents Sends a newspaper notice to be published concerning a translation of Lucien Bonaparte's poem.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Acknowledges letter written by Minor.","PCS. Printed Card Signed. Written on back of visiting card of Miss Elizabeth Whiting Conrad.","Scope and Contents Desires Dr. Boutelle's presence when the suit of Hadley vs. Dodges and Jones is tried.","Scope and Contents Renewing the request that M. Peraud, Master of studies, bring Favie to Puizot's home during the vacation. In French. Includes translation.","Scope and Contents Speaks of a certain \"matter\" between them.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in two suits: Boyd's Admr. vs. The City Savings Bank, and Boyd's Admr. vs. Dimmock  Co.","Scope and Contents Concerns proceedings in Congress.  Probably John Randolph of Roanoke.","Scope and Contents Photograph of Document Signed. Signed by Peyton Randolphe, J. Power, and G[eorge] Wythe.","Scope and Contents Sends order to be entered in records of case of John Moore, Administrator of Lydia Moore, deceased, vs. John Ball, referring the matters in variance to arbitration by Charles Williams, John Reece, James Boggs, all of Mill-Creek Hundred [Delaware]. Read is attorney for the plaintiff who lives in Virginia.","Scope and Contents Asks name of a contributor on the subject of currency.","Scope and Contents Note regarding Losing's Pictorial History of the U.S.","Scope and Contents Thanks Perry for the letter and the program; suggests that following \"scholarly etiquette,\" L. D. be added after his [Saxe's] name since he has received an honorary degree.","Scope and Contents Is away from home but hopes to see Miss Rowland on her return.","Lay out 5 1/2 acres in the Township of New Milford, [Connecticut] for Ann Gunn, Ruth Gunn, and Jane Gunn, daughters of Nathan Gunn, late of New Milford, deceased, being land wanting in a former division between Enos Camp and said Nathan Gunn.","Signature. C.S.","Scope and Contents Response concerning a possible weapon testing; received the letter through the U.S. embassy; news of friend's suicide attempt; offers to help in any way possible with the new weapon.","Scope and Contents Expansion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Eastern Kentucky.","Scope and Contents Autograph Document. The suit concerned Virginia funds expended by Smith just previous to the fall of the Virginia government in 1865.","Scope and Contents Letter to his publisher regarding literary matters.","Scope and Contents Copy of Document. Certification that on 8 April 1865 Supplies were taken from A. Staples of Patrick Court House, Virginia, by the Federal forces.","Scope and Contents Sends autographs of the judges of the Supreme Court and a copy of his centennial discourse.","Scope and Contents Testimonial letter regarding Joseph Segar who is seeking office of charge d'affairs to Texas.","Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed. Concerns purchase of film rights to \"The Two Vanrevels\".","Scope and Contents Gives his terms for delivering lectures.","Scope and Contents Concerns the legal aspects of a case in which Sharp is involved.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Regrets being unable to attend the annual re-union of the Massachusetts Press Association.","Scope and Contents Will take charge of the parcel Sprague is sending Dr. Lawrie.","Scope and Contents Concerned with the supply of medical personnel; marching information. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Concerns a letter from the New York Times he had misplaced.","Scope and Contents Letter Signed. Discusses and gives approval as a \"Commissioner of the state\"to Isaac Watkins and Colonel Whitley to construct a road, to be built through the \"Cherokee country to the highest navigation of the Savannah River.\" Including a Autograph Copy of Document of an extract from Judge [George] Walton, n.p., 28 April 1800, to the Grand Jury of Wilkes County, [Ga.], concerning his enquiries regarding the best routes for roads from the Tennessee River into Georgia. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents Autograph Copy of Political discussion. [Reproduced from original in possession of J.C. McGuire, Washington, D.C.].","Scope and Contents For 95 prisoners, and \"five citizens who are suspicious persons\", signed by Brig. Gen. John H. Winder.","Scope and Contents Will send The Virginian for the Williamsburg Library. His Washington is the \"apple of its author's eye.\"","Scope and Contents Document. In Spanish.","Scope and Contents Printed Document.","Contains Ph and Cy of signature of John M. Harlan on cover. Printed Material.","William Hodges Mann, (1843-1927). Proclamation authorizing a day of mourning, July 1, 1910, for John Warwick Daniel, (1842-1910), Confederate soldier, Senator, and statesman. Contains Ph and Cy of Signature of John Warwick Daniel. 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Includes photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee The James excerpts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee The James excerpts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also \"Distinguished Women of Southwest Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also Across My Path excerpts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Randolph, Sarah Nicholas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also Astor, Lady Nancy (Langhorne)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items, including photographs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee \"Noted Women in the Locality\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day.\" Includes photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Across My Path excerpts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee \"Famous Women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Lewis, Hildah\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items, including photographs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee \"Distinguished Women of Southwest Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Booker, Sallie Cook\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Bryan, Mrs. Joseph\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also Jordan, Cornelia Jane (Matthews)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also \"Famous women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Wiley, Mary Evans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items, including photographs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also \"Some Significant Women of Richmond.\" Includes photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Across My Path excerpts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Rives, Amelia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIincludes photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also Bodeker, Anne Whitehead; \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"; \"Some Significant Women of Richmond\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also \"Famous Women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee \"Famous Women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee \"Famous Women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee \"Important Women of the Lynchburg Florence Crittenden Home\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee Martin, William H. 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Includes biographical sketches of women, correspondence with women who had sent sketches and were subscribers, and correspondence of Robert Hendrix who collected money from the subscribers but was unable to publish the book. Sue Ruffin Tyler contracted to write the historical material for a book on women in Virginia, to have been entitled The Women of Virginia. Living women were to submit sketches of themselves and their organizations and to subscribe to the volume. The volume was never published.","Biographical sketches of women and some correspondence with women who had sent sketches. Dates refer to either the birth and death dates of the individual woman, or the dates they were alive and active.","Photograph.","Includes photographs.","Includes photographs.","See \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\" and Bourne, Rosa Jones.","See also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"","Photograph.","See also \"Famous Women-Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","See \"Famous Women-Fredericksburg, Virginia.\"","See also Hollywood Memorial Association","Includes photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Includes photographs.","See also Astor, Lady Nancy (Langhorne), see also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day.\"","See also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"","See also \"Lynchburg's Confederate Women\"","See Holland, Annie W.","Includes photographs.","See also Borockenborough, Emily (Baskerville).","See also \"Distinguished Women of Southwest Virginia.\"","See \"Noted Women in the Locality.\"","Includes photographs.","See \"Important Women of the Lynchburg Florence Crittenden Home.\"","Includes photographs.","See \"Famous Women- Fredericksburg, Virginia\", see also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day.\"","See \"Noted Women in the Locality.\"","See also \"Across My Path\" excerpts.","Includes photographs.","See Henry, Dorthea (Dandridge).","See also \"Famous Women-Fredericksburg, Virginia.\"","See also \"Narrative of the Insurrection 1675-1690.\"","See also \"Narratives of the Insurrection 1675-1690.\"","Includes photographs.","See \"Some Significant Women of Richmond.\"","See Upshur, Mary J.S.","See \"Important Women of Lynchburg\"","See also Bryan, Mrs. Joseph.","Includes photographs.","See also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"","Includes photographs.","Photograph.","See \"Important Women of Lynchburg.\"","See \"Famous Women-Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","See Humphreys, Margaret","Photograph.","Photograph.","See \"Important Women of Lynchburg\"","See also \"Famous Women-Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","See also \"Distinguished Women of Southwest Virginia\"","See also Cocke, Elizabeth (Cates)","Includes photographs.","See Across My Path excerpts","See \"Noted Women in the Locality\"","See \"Noted Women in the Locality\"","Includes photographs.","See \"Famous Women-Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","Includes photographs.","See also \"Across My Path\" excerpts.","See also \"Famous Women--Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","See \"Important Women of Lynchburg\"","Includes photographs.","See Lee, Rebecca Taylor","See Livingston family","See \"Important Women of Lynchburg\"","Includes photographs.","Includes photographs.","Includes photographs.","See also Appomattox, Queen of. Includes photograph.","See The James excerpts","See The James excerpts","See also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"","Photographs.","See also \"Distinguished Women of Southwest Virginia\"","See also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"","See also Across My Path excerpts","See Randolph, Sarah Nicholas","See also Astor, Lady Nancy (Langhorne)","Includes photographs.","3 items, including photographs","See \"Noted Women in the Locality\"","Includes photographs.","See also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day.\" Includes photographs.","See Across My Path excerpts","See \"Famous Women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","See Lewis, Hildah","4 items, including photographs","See \"Distinguished Women of Southwest Virginia\"","See Booker, Sallie Cook","See Bryan, Mrs. Joseph","See also Jordan, Cornelia Jane (Matthews)","See also \"Famous women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia","See Wiley, Mary Evans","3 items, including photographs","See also \"Some Significant Women of Richmond.\" Includes photographs.","See Across My Path excerpts","See Rives, Amelia","Iincludes photograph.","See also Bodeker, Anne Whitehead; \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"; \"Some Significant Women of Richmond\"","Includes photograph.","See also \"Famous Women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","See \"Famous Women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","See \"Famous Women -- Fredericksburg, Virginia\"","See also \"Forgotten Women of an Early Day\"","See \"Important Women of the Lynchburg Florence Crittenden Home\"","See Martin, William H. (Mrs.)","See Humphreys, Margaret","DeLeon, Thomas Cooker.","Ellet, Elizabeth F. 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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.","Dr. Richard P. Ludlow and Alexander Somervail Medical Accounts (Mss. Acc. 2005.35)","Collection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century.","The collection also includes correspondence, 1830-1920, of members of the Baird family including letters, 1859-1911, of Edward R. Baird while attending the University of Virginia, serving in Pickett's Division and as superintendent of schools in Essex County.","There are also letters of William Baird while attending the University of Virginia and business correspondence of the family with publishers and with cigar manufacturers. The collection also includes papers, 1835-1897, of members of the Hunter family including R. M. T. Hunter.","1994.46 Addition: Copy of Baird-Rowzie genealogy chart and Samuel Barron I genealogy chart.","2008.271 Addition: \"Letters to a Nineteenth Century Physician\u0026quot; paper by R.D. Jordan.  Papers concerns letters from owners of ailing slaves in Albemarle County, Virginia to Charles Brown, a Charlottesville physician.","2 items. 1 photostat included.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Document signed.","1 page. Document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. The deed is transferred from John Weine, Rappahannock County, to Edward Rowzee, March 11, 1665. 1 p.","1 page. Document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","2 pages. Document signed.","2 pages. Document signed.","1 page. Document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","2 pages. Document signed.","Document signed.","2 pages. Autograph document.","1 page. Document signed.","1 page.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed. Modern autograph copy included.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","5 pages. Autograph document signed.","3 pages. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","2 pages. Autograph document. Autograph copy included.","Fragments. Autograph document signed.","Scope and Contents","Two questions about a will from Jo[h]n Rowzee to Edward Barradall. 2 pages. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Reply from Edward Barradall, 12 March [?].","Signed by William Gooch. 1 page. Document signed.","1 page. Document signed.","1 page. Fragments. Document signed.","2 pages. Document signed.","2 pages. Document.","2 pages. Autograph copy signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","6 pages. Autograph document signed.","Description of land deeded to John Rowzee by John Noel. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Description of land deeded to Tho[ma]s Andrews by John Noel, 1754. 1 page.","1 page. fragments. Autograph document.","1 page. Printed document signed.","3 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Fragments. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document.","1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Document signed.","7 pieces.","2 pages. Autograph document.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","Appointment of W[illia]m Boutwell as guardian to Mary Ann Boutwell, W[illia]m Boutwell, John Boutwell; also to Burkenhead, Elizabeth and Mary Boutwell; signed by Tho[ma]s Jones, D[i]st[rict] Att[orne]y. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including autograph note signed on verso. Recept from W[illia]m Boutwell to William Rowzee, 4 Nov. 1784. 1 page.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","Order of payment to Thomas Hawkins, Essex County, from W[illia]m Boutwell to pay W[illia]m Gray. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from J[o]hn Gray to Thomas Hawkins, 13 Sept. 1784. 1 page.","Statement of a bond between W[illia]m Rowzee and W[illia]m Boutwell. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt to W[illia]m Boutwell, 18 Aug. 1785. 1 page.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","An order for two barrels of corn and a request for a statement of his account. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph letter signed.","Receipt from Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from John Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins, 27 Oct. 1785. 1 page.","1 page. Autograph document.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","2 pages. Autograph copy signed.","A list of bonds paid to Jo[h]n Hord by W[illia]m Rowzee. 2 pages. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt from John Hord to William Rowzee. 1 page.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","1 page. Autograph letter signed.","4 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.","4 pieces.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","22 pieces.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","2 pages. 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Document signed.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","6 items. Autograph document.","1 page. Autograph document.","1 page. Autograph document signed.","2 pages. Autograph document signed.","3 letters. Autograph letter signed.","53 items.","97 items.","11 items.","3 pages. Autograph letter signed.","1 page. Autograph document.","1 page. Autograph document.","15 pieces.","1 page. Fragments. Sk.","lp. Sk.","lp. Sk.","2 pages. Sk. and Document.","11 items.","22 items.","26 items.","24 items.","25 items.","21 items.","21 items.","21 items.","2 items. Autograph letter signed.","4 pages. 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Addition.","26 items.","20 items.","15 items.","12 items.","3 pages Autograph letter signed.","10 items.","5 items.","34 items.","Copyright to this collection was retained by the family and researchers should first contact the Special Collections Research Center.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","Baird family","Barron family","Hunter family","Rowzee family","Hunter, R. M. T. 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Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed. Modern autograph copy included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document. Autograph copy included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragments. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo questions about a will from Jo[h]n Rowzee to Edward Barradall. 2 pages. Autograph document signed. 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Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Fragments. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of W[illia]m Boutwell as guardian to Mary Ann Boutwell, W[illia]m Boutwell, John Boutwell; also to Burkenhead, Elizabeth and Mary Boutwell; signed by Tho[ma]s Jones, D[i]st[rict] Att[orne]y. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. 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Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from John Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins, 27 Oct. 1785. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph copy signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of bonds paid to Jo[h]n Hord by W[illia]m Rowzee. 2 pages. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt from John Hord to William Rowzee. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elp. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement made between John Rowzee and Apphia Rowzee. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including copy of autograph document signed on verso. Agreement admitted to record in Essex County by John P. Lee, Clerk, 20 June 1814. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. 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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.","Dr. Richard P. Ludlow and Alexander Somervail Medical Accounts (Mss. Acc. 2005.35)","Collection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century.","The collection also includes correspondence, 1830-1920, of members of the Baird family including letters, 1859-1911, of Edward R. 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Addition.","26 items.","20 items.","15 items.","12 items.","3 pages Autograph letter signed.","10 items.","5 items.","34 items.","Copyright to this collection was retained by the family and researchers should first contact the Special Collections Research Center.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","Baird family","Barron family","Hunter family","Rowzee family","Hunter, R. M. T. 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Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed. Modern autograph copy included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document. Autograph copy included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragments. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo questions about a will from Jo[h]n Rowzee to Edward Barradall. 2 pages. Autograph document signed. 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Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Fragments. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of W[illia]m Boutwell as guardian to Mary Ann Boutwell, W[illia]m Boutwell, John Boutwell; also to Burkenhead, Elizabeth and Mary Boutwell; signed by Tho[ma]s Jones, D[i]st[rict] Att[orne]y. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including autograph note signed on verso. Recept from W[illia]m Boutwell to William Rowzee, 4 Nov. 1784. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder of payment to Thomas Hawkins, Essex County, from W[illia]m Boutwell to pay W[illia]m Gray. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from J[o]hn Gray to Thomas Hawkins, 13 Sept. 1784. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of a bond between W[illia]m Rowzee and W[illia]m Boutwell. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt to W[illia]m Boutwell, 18 Aug. 1785. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn order for two barrels of corn and a request for a statement of his account. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from John Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins, 27 Oct. 1785. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph copy signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of bonds paid to Jo[h]n Hord by W[illia]m Rowzee. 2 pages. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt from John Hord to William Rowzee. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elp. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement made between John Rowzee and Apphia Rowzee. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including copy of autograph document signed on verso. Agreement admitted to record in Essex County by John P. Lee, Clerk, 20 June 1814. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. 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