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Among the organizations with which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's personal and professional networks and their political activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother, Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters offers insights into relationships between mothers and their adult children. The collection also contains information on teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political activities.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00010","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00010.xml","title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2","Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage.","900 (ca.) items. (2 archival and 1\n oversize box).","The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.","Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.","This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Adele Clark in 1979. Accessioned 7 July\n 1986."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["900 (ca.) items. 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In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":45,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00010","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00010.xml","title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2","Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage.","900 (ca.) items. (2 archival and 1\n oversize box).","The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.","Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.","This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Adele Clark in 1979. 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(2 archival and 1\n oversize box)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":45,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00018","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00018#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Include public correspondence, press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences, and family correspondence relating to the political career of J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until untimely his death in 1971.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00018#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00018","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00018","_root_":"vihi_vih00018","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00018","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00018.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2","A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. General Assembly -- Members -- History\n -- 20th century.","Virginia. Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)","1,800 items (18 manuscript\n boxes).","This collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].","The next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).","Julian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]","Series 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.","The next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.","Julian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland.","This collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.","Series Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.","Series Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.","Series Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.","Series Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).","Series Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.","Series Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.","Series Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","The final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.","Include public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Mary Ballou Reynolds Ballentine, Richmond,\n Va., in 1994."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. General Assembly -- Members -- History\n -- 20th century.","Virginia. Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. General Assembly -- Members -- History\n -- 20th century.","Virginia. Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["1,800 items (18 manuscript\n boxes)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].","The next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).","Julian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]","Series 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.","The next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJulian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Julian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.","Series Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.","Series Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.","Series Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.","Series Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).","Series Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.","Series Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.","Series Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","The final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":352,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:41.463Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00018","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00018","_root_":"vihi_vih00018","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00018","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00018.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2","A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. General Assembly -- Members -- History\n -- 20th century.","Virginia. Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)","1,800 items (18 manuscript\n boxes).","This collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].","The next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).","Julian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]","Series 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.","The next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.","Julian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland.","This collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.","Series Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.","Series Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.","Series Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.","Series Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).","Series Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.","Series Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.","Series Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","The final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.","Include public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Mary Ballou Reynolds Ballentine, Richmond,\n Va., in 1994."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. 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Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["1,800 items (18 manuscript\n boxes)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].","The next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).","Julian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]","Series 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.","The next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJulian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Julian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.","Series Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.","Series Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.","Series Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.","Series Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).","Series Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.","Series Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.","Series Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","The final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":352,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:41.463Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00018"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00015","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00015#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 of the collection begins with the papers of Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to the National Vaccine Institution (1825).\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00015#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00015","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00015","_root_":"vihi_vih00015","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00015","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00015.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2","A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876","Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","2,050 (ca.)items (18 manuscipt\n boxes)","Collection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary.","Records of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins.","Series 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).","Series 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"","Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.","Also present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.","In addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.","Series 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.","Diary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.","Robert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.","Robert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.","Series 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.","Rose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.","Series 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).","Francis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.","Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.","Most letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)","Also, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.","Beginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.","Annie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.","From January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)","By April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.","To help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.","Tom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.","A baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.","In 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.","Tom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.","Business letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.","Friends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).","Distant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.","Letters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.","Notable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.","The last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.","In 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.","From 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).","Thomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.","Among Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.","Scattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).","Among the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.","Series Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.","Series Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.","Series 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.","As a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.","The remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.","Ruth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.","Series 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.","Anne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.","One of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.","Section 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.","The second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.","In the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.","The last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.","Among Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.","Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.","Series Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. William Maury Hill, Richmond, Va., in 1989.\n Accessioned June 26, 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2,050 (ca.)items (18 manuscipt\n boxes)"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Collection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Records of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFriends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDistant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSection 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).","Series 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"","Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.","Also present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.","In addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.","Series 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.","Diary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.","Robert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.","Robert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.","Series 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.","Rose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.","Series 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).","Francis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.","Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.","Most letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)","Also, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.","Beginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.","Annie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.","From January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)","By April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.","To help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.","Tom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.","A baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.","In 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.","Tom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.","Business letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.","Friends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).","Distant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.","Letters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.","Notable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.","The last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.","In 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.","From 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).","Thomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.","Among Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.","Scattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).","Among the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.","Series Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.","Series Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.","Series 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.","As a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.","The remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.","Ruth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.","Series 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.","Anne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.","One of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.","Section 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.","The second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.","In the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.","The last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.","Among Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.","Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.","Series Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":42,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00015","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00015","_root_":"vihi_vih00015","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00015","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00015.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2","A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876","Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","2,050 (ca.)items (18 manuscipt\n boxes)","Collection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary.","Records of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins.","Series 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).","Series 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"","Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.","Also present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.","In addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.","Series 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.","Diary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.","Robert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.","Robert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.","Series 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.","Rose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.","Series 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).","Francis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.","Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.","Most letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)","Also, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.","Beginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.","Annie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.","From January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)","By April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.","To help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.","Tom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.","A baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.","In 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.","Tom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.","Business letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.","Friends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).","Distant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.","Letters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.","Notable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.","The last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.","In 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.","From 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).","Thomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.","Among Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.","Scattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).","Among the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.","Series Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.","Series Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.","Series 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.","As a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.","The remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.","Ruth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.","Series 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.","Anne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.","One of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.","Section 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.","The second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.","In the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.","The last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.","Among Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.","Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.","Series Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. William Maury Hill, Richmond, Va., in 1989.\n Accessioned June 26, 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2,050 (ca.)items (18 manuscipt\n boxes)"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Collection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Records of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFriends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDistant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSection 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).","Series 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"","Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.","Also present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.","In addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.","Series 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.","Diary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.","Robert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.","Robert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.","Series 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.","Rose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.","Series 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).","Francis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.","Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.","Most letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)","Also, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.","Beginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.","Annie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.","From January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)","By April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.","To help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.","Tom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.","A baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.","In 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.","Tom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.","Business letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.","Friends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).","Distant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.","Letters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.","Notable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.","The last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.","In 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.","From 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).","Thomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.","Among Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.","Scattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).","Among the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.","Series Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.","Series Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.","Series 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.","As a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.","The remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.","Ruth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.","Series 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.","Anne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.","One of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.","Section 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.","The second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.","In the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.","The last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.","Among Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.","Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.","Series Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":42,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00015"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00017","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00017#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The collection includes correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills, correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman; correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\" farm records; and materials concerning the management of \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913, financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks, correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00017#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00017","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00017","_root_":"vihi_vih00017","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00017","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00017.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977","Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880.","11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n boxes).","Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham.","The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)","The collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Credilla B. W. Bordley, Ashland, Va., and\n Lawrence V. M. Wickham, Hanover, Va., in 1987. Accessioned\n 22 July 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n boxes)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlong with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":53,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00017","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00017","_root_":"vihi_vih00017","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00017","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00017.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977","Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880.","11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n boxes).","Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham.","The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)","The collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Credilla B. W. Bordley, Ashland, Va., and\n Lawrence V. M. Wickham, Hanover, Va., in 1987. Accessioned\n 22 July 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n boxes)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlong with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":53,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00017"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00016","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00016#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Abstract: The collection includes correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal records (including materials concerning the treason trial of Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence, 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts; and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family members, prominent medical practitioners, and business associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929, of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933), especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring signatures and letters of prominent American and English literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939), attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice, local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of other Wickham family members","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00016#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00016","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00016","_root_":"vihi_vih00016","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00016","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00016.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945","Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)","5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n boxes)","Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.","The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.","Abstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Dr. Charles W. Porter and Mrs. Julia Wickham\n Porter, Richmond, Va., in 1986. Accessioned 1 October\n 1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n boxes)"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026amp; Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBell \u0026amp; Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026amp; Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eAbstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":42,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00016","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00016","_root_":"vihi_vih00016","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00016","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00016.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945","Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)","5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n boxes)","Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.","The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.","Abstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1766-1945"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Dr. Charles W. Porter and Mrs. Julia Wickham\n Porter, Richmond, Va., in 1986. Accessioned 1 October\n 1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.","Autograph albums -- Virginia --\n Richmond.","Bunker Hill (Darlington County, S.C.)","Diaries -- Virginia -- Henrico County -- History\n -- 20th century.","East Tuckahoe (Henrico County, Va.)","Lawyers -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History.","New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston --\n History -- 19th century.","Porcher, Francis Peyre, 1825-1895.","Practice of law -- Louisiana -- New Orleans --\n History -- 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia - - Richmond --\n History.","Sprague (Wash.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1783-1865.","Veterans -- France -- History -- World War,\n 1914-1918.","Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th\n century.","Virginia. General Assembly. Senate -- Members --\n History -- 20th century.","Virginia. Militia. Cavalry Regiment, 1st\n (1891-1897)","Wickham, Elizabeth Selden Maclurg,\n 1815-1853.","Wickham family.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Julia Wickham Porcher,\n 1860-1933.","Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1821-\n 1909.","Wickham, Thomas Ashby, 1857-1939.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1860- 1900.","Woodside (Henrico County, Va.)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.\n boxes)"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into seventeen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by document type or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as\n the \"Woodside Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A\n skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and\n political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had\n numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his\n descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026amp; Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBell \u0026amp; Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026amp; Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026amp; W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal\n correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of\n prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James\n Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing\n lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in\n western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri\n Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,\n Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part\n concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing\n an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of\n Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of\n Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin\n Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about\n 35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a\n Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;\n enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall\n [18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a\n cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while\n serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.\n Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah\n Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student\n and physician in Baltimore, Md.).","Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law\n practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in\n Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an\n unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes\n on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the\n Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified\n individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British\n Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of\n actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia\n in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of\n Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.","Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the\n federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807\n primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the\n integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and\n Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of\n honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to\n President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with\n George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and\n affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.\n (Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor\n condition and barely legible.)","While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a\n large tract of land in western Henrico County known as \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His records of that estate include lists of slaves\n at \"Middle Quarter\" and \"Lower Quarter,\" 1821-1837 (the 1825\n list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test\n borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,\n 1836.","John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes\n on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and\n undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate\n that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay\n on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by\n Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice\n John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);\n physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden\n (McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham\n children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;\n and lines of verse.","Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his\n will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of\n Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to\n Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;\n and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate\n of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the \"East Tuckahoe\" estate,\n 1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham\n (1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes\n and a bond.","John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him\n two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth\n Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers\n of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of\n correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,\n Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at\n \"Shirley\" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,\n Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of \"Shirley,\" Charles City\n County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at\n Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those\n of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,\n 1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and\n Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).\n Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry\n Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.","The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham\n featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham\n (note that the children began to spell \"McClurg\" as\n \"maclurg\"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at \"East\n Tuckahoe.\" His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist\n of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily\n with plantation operations, the management of slaves\n (including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of\n clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the\n recent death of family members and friends. Some of the\n records in this diary were entered by John Wickham\n (1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include\n letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).\n Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;\n bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of\n Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the\n lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of\n Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia\n court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the\n legatees).","Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the\n University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by\n President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of\n Thomas E. Clarke to the \"Woodside\" plantation in Henrico\n County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at\n \"Woodlawn,\" Henrico County); personal property tax return,\n 1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records\n are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the\n draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the\n executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted\n deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.","Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his\n father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University\n of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before\n returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series\n 4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns\n his life as a student at the University, the estates of his\n two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old \"East\n Tuckahoe\" estate. Among the more important of frequent\n correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,\n concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation in Darlington County,\n S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.\n Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars\n Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the \"Bunker\n Hill\" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),\n Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden\n (New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),\n John Scott (of \"Oakwood,\" Fauquier County, concerning the\n abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the\n University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham\n (with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some\n letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs\n and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),\n George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur\n Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing\n references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),\n Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing\n law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,\n W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham\n etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.\n Taliaferro \u0026 Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission\n merchants).","L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes\n 8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of\n checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose\n accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,\n concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia\n include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a\n speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,\n eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,\n examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,\n 1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing\n abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of\n John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning\n lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law\n partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.","Bell \u0026 Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at\n \"Woodside\" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,\n accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a\n mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn\n and \"machine shelter\" on the estate and his records are\n comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then\n follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to\n portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;\n lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly\n concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and\n miscellany.","In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at\n \"Bunker Hill\" in Darlington County, S.C., from his\n father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the\n transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.\n Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,\n proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre\n (Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists\n of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward\n Porcher, and miscellany.","A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the\n Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'\n receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to\n Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in\n the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County\n residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing\n of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about\n two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's\n postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for\n Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property\n (broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and\n letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William\n Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the\n marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.","Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller\n Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster\n to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual\n abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,\n 1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,\n 1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of\n verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to\n Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters\n written to Wickham \u0026 Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and\n newspaper clippings.","Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff\n Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is\n represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is\n primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of\n her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are\n Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,\n Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash\n Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also\n contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning\n the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including\n correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp\n [administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the\n Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of\n the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John\n Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;\n inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes\n of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from\n her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham\n (will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral\n notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for\n Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of\n petitions and motions], and notes).","The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)\n Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after\n bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include\n letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South\n Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection\n also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,\n Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of\n correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death\n of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham\n (1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived\n at \"Woodside\" in Henrico County. His correspondence,\n 1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,\n Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military\n academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an\n extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24\n October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains\n John Wickham's records of \"East Tuckahoe,\" particularly\n concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including\n plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an\n agreement.","John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the\n Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District\n Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of\n proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of\n Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham\n [1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of\n T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.\n Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate\n (including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and\n a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John\n Wickham's records.","Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of\n Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of\n Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden\n Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and\n others.","Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,\n whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an\n eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had\n married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His\n correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed\n largely to family members, prominent American and European\n practitioners, and some financial and business associates\n (especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern\n the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed\n below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,\n Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick\n Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning\n Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.\n Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an\n 1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of\n Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South\n Carolina local history also survive.","Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting\n items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are\n orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel\n Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the\n 7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States\n Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,\n 1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a\n commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the\n American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson\n Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher\n family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre\n Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander\n Mazyck Porcher.","Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the\n years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic\n notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,\n personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's\n correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily\n with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the\n Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate\n (especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the\n appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State\n Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)\n Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law\n partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice\n Wallace Mount.","Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books\n (two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge\n Wickham's residence at \"Woodside.\" These include an insurance\n policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,\n materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek\n and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the\n acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico\n County, 1909- 1912.","Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,\n consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to\n James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the\n professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law\n firm of T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases\n in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,\n and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances\n (Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);\n materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy\n Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of\n Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials\n concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham\n during his judicial career.","Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in\n the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York\n County for a portion of their district to be added to James\n City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings\n in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)\n and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic\n Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;\n form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The\n judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to\n White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;\n tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).","Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records\n of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s\n as T.A. \u0026 W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.\n Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,\n St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from\n architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia\n State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially\n concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm\n in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of\n Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,\n Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman\n Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson\n Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney\n Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor\n Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and\n the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in\n Richmond.","Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of\n accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First\n Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special\n orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses\n of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light\n Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices\n of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal\n orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights\n Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of\n Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law\n practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of\n St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the\n Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;\n records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in\n Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County\n courthouse.","Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham\n Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby\n Wickham in 1897 and lived at \"Woodside.\" She kept a diary (Box\n 28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains\n numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.\n Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher\n family members and with friends, but also includes letters\n from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just\n after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:\n Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the\n Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and\n Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason\n Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the\n close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,\n Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter\n Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)\n Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,\n Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning\n President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)\n Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton\n Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a\n copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,\n in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books\n include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891\n and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then\n follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of\n autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began\n collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement\n and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and\n clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical\n associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family\n members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it\n follows this collection description. Loose items have been\n filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.\n The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly\n acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their\n very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose\n items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A\n separate index of the documents removed from this second\n volume is also available.","The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection\n include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous\n newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped\n around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South\n Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general\n information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,\n 1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily\n concerns literature and language); materials concerning the\n \"Half-Hour Reading Club,\" 1889-1895, presumably in South\n Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of\n verse by Edmund Pendleton.","Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge\n Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham\n survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,\n 1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),\n 1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series\n 14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)\n Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,\n Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;\n and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,\n 1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,\n make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.","Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas\n Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of \"Woodside\n Wickhams\" in this collection. His papers are contained in\n Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with\n family and friends from the University of Virginia and\n concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and\n Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John\n Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of \"Lower Bremo,\"\n Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard\n Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia\n Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry\n Wilke.","Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High\n School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be\n found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list\n of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as\n a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by\n Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching\n career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his\n mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the\n University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917\n and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination\n reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,\n and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany\n concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,\n 1923-1938.","The collection closes with Series 17, which contains\n miscellaneous family and non-family materials including\n letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward\n Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary\n Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher\n (Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eAbstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: The collection includes\n correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John\n Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and\n politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund\n Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal\n records (including materials concerning the treason trial of\n Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning \"East Tuckahoe\"\n plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the\n settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,\n 1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham\n (1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at\n \"Woodside,\" Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas\n Ashby concerning the \"Bunker Hill\" plantation, Darlington\n County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of\n Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;\n and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes\n correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher\n (1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family\n members, prominent medical practitioners, and business\n associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,\n of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),\n especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along\n with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring\n signatures and letters of prominent American and English\n literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes\n diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and\n miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),\n attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the\n Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia\n Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records\n of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,\n local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry\n Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of\n other Wickham family members"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":42,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00016"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00023","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00023#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00023#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files, organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883, but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations. There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond home, Virginia House. 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Consulate (Athens, Greece)","United States. Consulate (Calcutta, India)","United States. Consulate (Catania, Italy)","United States. Consulate (Mexico City, Mexico)","United States. Consulate (Zanzibar, Zanzibar)","United States. Department of State","United States. General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "," Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. ","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. ","Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924","Materials in this collection are in\n English . 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":[" Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. "],"names_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924"],"famname_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy"],"persname_ssim":["Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924"],"language_ssim":["Materials in this collection are in\n English . "],"total_component_count_is":32,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00023","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00023","_root_":"vihi_vih00023","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00023","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00023.xml","title_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"title_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W4126 b FA2 "],"text":["Mss1 W4126 b FA2 ","Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","American Red Cross","Argentina--Diplomats--United States","Argentina--Foreign relations--United States","Autobiography","Catania (Italy)","Charities--Virginia--Richmond--History--20th century","Copenhagen (Denmark)","Denmark--Foreign relations--United States","Diplomatic and consular service, American","Diplomatic and consular service--United States--History--20th century","Greece--Foreign relations--United States","India--Foreign relations--United States","Italy--Foreign relations--United States","Mexico--Foreign relations--United States","Richmond Community Fund (Richmond, Va.)","Southern Churchman","Spain--Foreign relations--United States","United States. Consulate (Athens, Greece)","United States. Consulate (Calcutta, India)","United States. Consulate (Catania, Italy)","United States. Consulate (Mexico City, Mexico)","United States. Consulate (Zanzibar, Zanzibar)","United States. Department of State","United States. General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "," Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. ","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. ","Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924","Materials in this collection are in\n English . 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":[" Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. "],"names_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924"],"famname_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy"],"persname_ssim":["Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. 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The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00009","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00009#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The Aubrey N. Brown papers include a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a variety of sources, and some of the organizational records from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern Regional Council). Also included in the collection are materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the collection also includes annual family newsletters generated by Brown.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00009#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00009","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00009","_root_":"vihi_vih00009","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00009","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00009.xml","title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2","Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century.","730 (ca.)\n items.","The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.","Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.","Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).","The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_ssim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Aubrey N. Brown, Jr., Richmond, Va., in 1990.\n Accessioned 17 May 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["730 (ca.)\n items."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":18,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00009","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00009","_root_":"vihi_vih00009","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00009","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00009.xml","title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2","Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995","African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century.","730 (ca.)\n items.","The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.","Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.","Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).","The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B8122 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_title_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"collection_ssim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown Papers, \n \n 1944-1995"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Aubrey N. Brown, Jr., Richmond, Va., in 1990.\n Accessioned 17 May 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans -- Virginia -- Civil\n rights.","Brown, Aubrey N. (Aubrey Neblett), 1908-","Civil rights movements.","Clergy -- Political activity.","Segregation in education.","Southern States -- Race relations.","Virginia -- Social conditions -- 20th\n century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["730 (ca.)\n items."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Aubrey N. Brown are arranged into eighteen\n series by subject and document type."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Aubrey Neblett Brown was born May 6, 1908, in Hillsboro,\n Texas. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and\n earned a graduate degree in Union Theological Seminary in\n Richmond, Virginia. He married Sarah Dumond Hill (1910-1995)\n of Richmond and they had eight children. Brown returned to\n Richmond in 1943 and served as editor of the Presbyterian\n Outlook until his retirement in 1978. Throughout his career,\n Brown participated in several organizations that fostered\n improved race relations."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 concerns the Richmond Area Council on Human\n Relations (RACHR) from 1960 through 1967. The RACHR was an\n interracial council that was established during the mid-1950s.\n This council was one of many local councils in Virginia that\n functioned under the wing of the Virginia Council of Human\n Relations (a subsidiary of the Southern Regional Council). The\n purpose of the RACHR was to facilitate cooperation between the\n races through meetings and events. They also supported the\n efforts of activists who were agitating for racial\n equality.","The portion of organizational records in this collection\n includes membership and solicitations lists; meeting minutes,\n which include attendees, progress notes, and future goals;\n correspondence; newspaper clippings about the RACHR; program\n announcements (1962-1964); newsletters about the activities of\n the RACHR; council brochures; financial records; and\n miscellany. Items are arranged chronologically (ca. 90\n items).","Series 2 includes a variety of documents concerning the\n sit-ins in Richmond which occurred during March 1960. It\n includes letters from some of the participants to Aubrey\n Brown, as well as a letter by Brown to the administration at\n Union Theological Seminary in which he voices his support for\n the students' protest; magazine articles about the sit-ins in\n Richmond, as well as local newspaper clippings; and a brief\n report about the establishment of the Richmond Citizens\n Advisory Committee which was established during the sit-ins\n (ca. 15 items).","Series 3 contains 4 items, 1960, which include\n correspondence about Christian students involved with the\n Civil Rights Movement and documents about the protest\n resignation of Dr. J. Robert Nelson, Dean of the Vanderbilt\n University Divinity School","Series 4 concerns the Virginia Council on Human relations,\n 1960-1968. The Virginia Council on Human Relations was one of\n several state councils established in the South by the\n Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the organization was\n to help to establish local councils and to provide them with\n support activities and news of events held by other councils.\n The VCHR and the local councils worked toward easing racial\n tensions by providing interracial gatherings, sponsoring\n speakers, and disseminating information about race\n relations","This is one of the larger sections in the collection and is\n arranged chronologically. It contains some of the\n organizational records that include minutes from the board of\n directors meetings, membership solicitations, financial\n records, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings\n about activities of and appointments to the VCHR,\n organizational brochures, and miscellany (ca. 140 items).","Series 5 concerns the Southern Regional Council, 1952-1968.\n Established in 1944, the Southern Regional Council was an\n outgrowth of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. One of\n the goals of the SRC was to collect and disseminate data bout\n issues related to race, particularly civil rights agitation\n and discriminatory policies.","This section includes documents generated by the Southern\n Regional Council to disseminate information about race\n relations and civil rights agitation. This section is arranged\n topically: miscellaneous documents, news releases disseminated\n by the SRC, some issues of New South magazine (the official\n organ of the SRC), publications and pamphlets, reports and\n special reports that focus on specific struggles within the\n Civil Rights Movement. Within each folder, the documents are\n arranged chronologically (ca. 50 items). Series 6 dates from\n 1943-1990 and contains articles about race that were published\n in the Presbyterian Outlook; documents pertaining to the\n history of the Presbyterian Outlook, edited by Brown; and two\n memos from Brown soliciting information about the Civil Rights\n Movement to be used for publication (ca. 40 items).","Series 7 contains a collection of speeches, 1957-1963 and\n undated, made by Brown, arranged chronologically. The speeches\n reflect his thoughts about race relations. Some include the\n place and date at which the speech was given (ca. 15\n items).","Series 8 contains correspondence, 1958-1963 and undated.\n Most of the letters in this section are addressed to Brown.\n The correspondence reflects the wide variety of sources from\n which Brown received information. A particular letter of\n interest is from Newman Hamblet, Vice President of Thalhimer\n Bros., Inc., and member of the RACHR, updating Brown on the\n status of an employee in 1963 (this employee was an\n African-American who was given a job at Thalhimers at the\n request of Brown) (ca. 15 items).","Series 9 contains two news releases, 1960 and 1961. One\n concerns segregation at public schools in Georgia; the other\n concerns resistance to desegregation at the University of the\n South at Sewanee, Tennessee (2 items).","Series 10 concern the Religious News Service, 1959-1963,\n and contains news excerpts about activities and events in the\n religious community (ca. 10 items).","Series 11 contains organization newsletters, 1960-1989, and\n includes three newsletters from the Student Non-Violent\n Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was established during\n 1960 to help organize student protesters. The additional\n newsletters are from a wide variety of religious and civil\n rights organizations, 1960-1989 (ca. 15 items).","Series 12 includes documents relating to the Conference on\n Integration of a Segregated Society, 1962, held at Vanderbilt\n University. Included are correspondence and planning notes for\n the conference, a press release, and a speech given at the\n conference. The folder with correspondence includes a letter\n from author Lillian Smith (1897-1966) to Brown about race\n relations and her book Killers of the Dream (ca. 30\n items).","Series 13 concerns Brown's service as chairman of the\n Virginia State Advisory Committee to the United States\n Commission on Civil Rights.. The two documents in this section\n consist of a conference program and a list of organizations\n that met with the committee in March 1966 (2 items).","Series 14 concerns Brown's service as the chairman of the\n planning committee for the Conference on People, Religion, and\n a Changing Virginia. The conference was held at the John\n Marshall Hotel in Richmond in November 1966; its purpose was\n to bring together Virginia' religious community to discuss the\n role of churches in social change. The documents in this\n section include conference information, such as announcements\n and a program guide; correspondence; a discussion guide used\n for groups during the conference, and several pages of\n handwritten discussion notes that summarize what each group\n concluded about race relations; expenditures; participants; a\n press release and newspaper clippings; and speeches (ca. 30\n items).","Included in Series 15 are pamphlets and publications,\n 1944-1967 and undated, about segregation and racial issues.\n Publications about Virginia include \"When a City Closes Its\n Schools,\" which is about public schools in Norfolk (1960);\n \"Events in Virginia,\" a pamphlet distributed by the Virginia\n State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond (1962); and \"Danville,\n Virginia,\" a booklet about the violent civil rights\n demonstrations there (1963). This section is arranged\n chronologically according to the dates given on each\n publication (ca. 60 items).","Series 16 is the largest section of the collection and\n contains a variety of newspaper clippings, 1951-1966 and\n undated, from several different papers, which include the\n Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond News Leader, the\n Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. The\n articles focus on racial issues and the Civil Rights Movement\n and are arranged chronologically (ca. 150 items).","Series 17 is made up of miscellaneous documents, 1945-1980\n and undated, chiefly articles about race relations. Many were\n generated by religious organizations that were concerned with\n social action or made resolutions about race relations. This\n section contains three folders: the first contains dated\n documents; the second contains documents without dates; and\n the third includes handwritten notes (ca. 20 items).","Series 18 includes two types of Brown family\n newsletters--\"Brown's Bugle\" (1956-1970) and \"Anno Domini\"\n (1971-1972, 1974-1977, and 1979-1995); excerpts from letters\n written by Aubrey Brown III (b. 1937) while serving in the\n Peace Corps in Nigeria from 1961-1964; the resumes of Aubrey\n N. Brown, Jr. (1990 and 1995); a brief biography of Brown\n written by Patricia Cornwell; and biographical sketches\n (written by Brown) about some of the founding members of the\n Ginter Park Presbyterian Church (ca. 40 items)."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Aubrey N. Brown papers include\n a wide variety of documents related to race relations and the\n civil rights movement dating from 1944. The collection\n includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence from a\n variety of sources, and some of the organizational records\n from the Richmond Area Council on Human Relations and the\n Virginia Council on Human Relations (organized by the Southern\n Regional Council). Also included in the collection are\n materials related to the Presbyterian Outlook, such as papers\n pertaining to the history of the magazine and articles related\n to race that appeared in the publication. Part of the\n collection also includes annual family newsletters generated\n by Brown."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":18,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00009"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00008","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00008#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Va.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00008#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Early materials concern Robert Baylor, Robert Payne Waring (1746-1799), and William Waring. The collection consists chiefly of the papers of Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and \"Kinloch,\" Essex County, Va., including diaries, correspondence, financial and land records and miscellany. Also included are correspondence, financial records, commonplace books, land and plantation records (concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, Va.), records of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, and miscellany of Robert's son-in-law Richard Baylor (1803-1862) of \"Kinloch,\" Essex County, Va. The collection contains letters amounts of material concerning other family members, including correspondence, accounts, and farm management records of Richard Baylor (1849-1914), Richard Baylor (1883-1953), and Robert Payne Baylor (1840-1872).","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00008#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00008","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00008","_root_":"vihi_vih00008","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00008","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00008.xml","title_ssm":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"title_tesim":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B3445 e FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B3445 e FA2","Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962","Agriculture.","Baylor family.","Baylor, Henry Latane, 1853- 1930.","Baylor, Richard, 1803- 1862.","Baylor, Richard, 1849-1914.","Baylor, Richard, 1883- 1953.","Batlor, Robert Payne, 1840-1872.","Edenetta (Essex County, Va.)","Essex County (Va.) -- History.","Farm management.","Kinloch (Essex County, Va.)","Old Dominion Steamboat Company.","Plantation life -- Virginia.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Charles City\n County.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Essex County.","Sandy Point (Charles City County, Va.)","Steamboat lines -- Virginia.","Waring, Robert Payne, 1775-1844.","Waring family.","3,000 (ca.) items.","The papers of the Baylor Family are arranged into nineteen\n series by individual and further subdivided by material type\n where necessary.","Baylor and Waring families of Essex County, Va. Represented\n are Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and\n \"Kinloch,\" planter and merchant; his son-in-law, Richard\n Baylor (1803-1862); Richard's sons, Robert Payne Baylor\n (1840-1872), Richard Baylor (1849-1914), and Henry\n Latan\u0026#38914;aylor (1853-1930); and grandson Richard\n (1883-1953).","This collection is devoted almost entirely to records of\n the acquisition of land by the Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Virginia, and the subsequent development and use\n of these lands for agricultural purposes. The land and farming\n records span several generations over three centuries, but\n have been divided by generation where appropriate.\n Consequently, records concerning \"Kinloch\" in Essex County, or\n \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County, for instance, will\n appear under several different headings. Researchers should\n read this description and the guide which follows thoroughly\n before embarking on an examination of these papers in order to\n be aware of the several locations of related records. The\n summary description highlights some of the most important\n aspects of the collection, while the guide provides a\n thorough, though not exhaustive, listing of materials.","The earliest records in the collection are primarily land\n records of the Baylor, Payne and Waring families, including an\n opinion of the celebrated attorney Benjamin Watkins Leigh\n (1781-1849) concerning the estate of Robert Payne Waring\n (1746-1799). For a full listing, see guide. Also of interest\n is a larger ledger kept by merchant Mordecai Booth\n (ca.1703-1775) in Yorktown, 1746-1752, which includes\n information on the ship \"Mermaid\". Other early family members\n for whom a few records are available in this collection\n include Robert Baylor, father of Richard Baylor (1803-1862),\n and William Waring, a Revolutionary War officer and uncle of\n Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844).","Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) is the first major figure\n for whom substantial material exists in this collection.\n Waring's diaries generally concern planting, harvesting, and\n weather, although random references are found to religion and\n his church activities. The diaries are bound with copies of\n David Richardson's Virginia \u0026 Carolina Almanac for the\n appropriate years. Among his correspondence is one\n particularly interesting letter from Episcopal clergyman\n Stephen Higginson Tyng (1800-1855). Waring's accounts cover\n personal expenses and plantation operations; one account book,\n 1815-1818, appears to concern the operation of a mercantile\n firm with Bevin Dandridge Pitts (d.1860?). Among the collected\n land records are materials tracing the title to \"Port Micou,\"\n (including legal opinions of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and John\n Tyler [folder 3] and a tract called simply \"William Taylor's\n Place\" (later \"Cavanaugh's\"), a part of the Port Micou-Kinloch\n consolidated tract in later years. For a summary of the title\n histories to Call Number Waring's various tracts see the notes\n of Richard Baylor in the folder marked \"estate materials\" (Box\n 3)","Robert Payne Waring (d.1838), son of the above, died young,\n and his father handled many matters regarding his estate. For\n \"Glencairn,\" the younger Waring's residence in Essex County,\n see the deed in Box 3 filed with the father's miscellaneous\n land records.","Richard Baylor (1803-1862) purchased the \"Kinloch\" estate\n and built his mansion there in the 1840s. For the design and\n construction of the home see his correspondence with Robert\n Cary Long (1810-1849), Baltimore architect, and the folder on\n \"Kinloch\" in Box 6, which includes architectural drawings.\n Baylor purchased the \"Sandy Point\" estate in Charles City\n County from Robert Buckner Bolling (1805-1881) in the 1850s\n and his cousin Thomas Gregory Baylor (1815-1864) served there\n several years as manager. Again, see correspondence and the\n appropriate folders in Box 6. Other important correspondents\n include Thomas Gregory Baylor (1837-1890), U. S. ordnance\n officer at Fortress Monroe, Va., and Robert Selden Garnett\n (1789-1840), sending a printed message concerning Bevin\n Dandridge Pitts and Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-\n 1887). Many letters from neighbors and acquaintances concern\n the purchase and welfare of Negro slaves; these are\n supplemented by a folder in Box 6 covering slave\n purchases.","Materials of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, in which\n Baylor was a stockholder, include correspondence of officers\n with Baylor, stock certificates, reports, and other records.\n Materials concerning agricultural societies include an address\n by Richard Baylor as president of one such local unit (the\n Agricultural Society of Essex County?) and membership\n certificates for himself and family in the Virginia State\n Agricultural Society. Box 6 also includes a photocopy of the\n St. Anne's Parish vestry minute book, 1787-1857, kept in part\n by Baylor as secretary. Estate materials include legal\n opinions of Arthur Alexander Morson (1801-1864), records\n concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, and guardian\n accounts for minor children of Richard Baylor kept by Robert\n Payne Baylor (1840-1872).","Materials relating to William Balor (1805-1895) consist of\n diplomas.","Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence includes lengthy\n exchanges with Robert William Baylor (b.1841) concerning saw\n mill operations at \"Sandy Point,\" and Richard Walke\n (1840-1901) concerning the estate of Richard Baylor. Most of\n Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence, accounts, bonds and\n miscellany concern farming operations at \"Greenfield,\"\n \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" \"Port Tobago\" (\"Port Tobacco\") in\n Essex County, and \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County. They\n include records of the sale to or confiscation by Confederate\n Officials of agricultural produce.","Richard Baylor (1849-1914), brother of the above, had\n extensive correspondence with his younger brother Henry\n Latan\u0026#39392;Baylor (1853-1930) as farm manager at\n \"Kinloch\" and owner of \"Edenetta\" in Essex County, his son\n Richard Baylor (1883-1953), lawyer Richard Walke, and Henry\n Waring, as farm manager at \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County.\n Most of his papers also relate to farm operations and\n management, including laborers contracts, wage records,\n blacksmiths' accounts and account books kept by Alexander\n Tunstall Brooke (1855-1927) at \"Marl Bank,\" Essex County.","In 1920 \"Kinloch\" was sold. Materials concerning the sale\n may be found in the \"estate\" folder of Isabella Thorburn\n (McIntosh) Baylor, wife of Richard Baylor (1849-1914), in Box\n 21. Among Henry Latan\u0026#39392;Baylor's papers are records\n of a lawsuit instituted in Essex County Circuit Court in 1921\n to establish title to the \"Kinloch\" estate. Then follow\n folders of a few items each for Richard Baylor's sisters.","Richard Baylor (1883-1953) is the last major figure\n represented in the collection. After the sale of \"Kinloch,\" he\n continued agricultural operations at Marl Bank Farms, near\n Iraville. His account books include payroll information for\n workers at \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" and \"Port Micou.\"","Also included are miscellaneous family materials, including\n correspondence, legal records, newspaper clippings,\n genealogical materials, and printed materials.","Early materials concern Robert\n Baylor, Robert Payne Waring (1746-1799), and William Waring.\n The collection consists chiefly of the papers of Robert Payne\n Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and \"Kinloch,\" Essex County,\n Va., including diaries, correspondence, financial and land\n records and miscellany. Also included are correspondence,\n financial records, commonplace books, land and plantation\n records (concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, Va.),\n records of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, and miscellany\n of Robert's son-in-law Richard Baylor (1803-1862) of\n \"Kinloch,\" Essex County, Va. The collection contains letters\n amounts of material concerning other family members, including\n correspondence, accounts, and farm management records of\n Richard Baylor (1849-1914), Richard Baylor (1883-1953), and\n Robert Payne Baylor (1840-1872).","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B3445 e FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"collection_title_tesim":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"collection_ssim":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Va."],"creator_ssim":["Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Va."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposited by Mrs. Wythe Davis Bowe, Jr., Chance, Va., in\n 1982 and 1983. Accessioned 22 June 1984. Title to the\n collection transferred to Mrs. Isabella B. Hite, Loretta,\n Va., and deposit confirmed, 11 December 1997."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture.","Baylor family.","Baylor, Henry Latane, 1853- 1930.","Baylor, Richard, 1803- 1862.","Baylor, Richard, 1849-1914.","Baylor, Richard, 1883- 1953.","Batlor, Robert Payne, 1840-1872.","Edenetta (Essex County, Va.)","Essex County (Va.) -- History.","Farm management.","Kinloch (Essex County, Va.)","Old Dominion Steamboat Company.","Plantation life -- Virginia.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Charles City\n County.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Essex County.","Sandy Point (Charles City County, Va.)","Steamboat lines -- Virginia.","Waring, Robert Payne, 1775-1844.","Waring family."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture.","Baylor family.","Baylor, Henry Latane, 1853- 1930.","Baylor, Richard, 1803- 1862.","Baylor, Richard, 1849-1914.","Baylor, Richard, 1883- 1953.","Batlor, Robert Payne, 1840-1872.","Edenetta (Essex County, Va.)","Essex County (Va.) -- History.","Farm management.","Kinloch (Essex County, Va.)","Old Dominion Steamboat Company.","Plantation life -- Virginia.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Charles City\n County.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Essex County.","Sandy Point (Charles City County, Va.)","Steamboat lines -- Virginia.","Waring, Robert Payne, 1775-1844.","Waring family."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3,000 (ca.) items."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of the Baylor Family are arranged into nineteen\n series by individual and further subdivided by material type\n where necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of the Baylor Family are arranged into nineteen\n series by individual and further subdivided by material type\n where necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBaylor and Waring families of Essex County, Va. Represented\n are Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and\n \"Kinloch,\" planter and merchant; his son-in-law, Richard\n Baylor (1803-1862); Richard's sons, Robert Payne Baylor\n (1840-1872), Richard Baylor (1849-1914), and Henry\n Latan\u0026amp;#38914;aylor (1853-1930); and grandson Richard\n (1883-1953).\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Baylor and Waring families of Essex County, Va. Represented\n are Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and\n \"Kinloch,\" planter and merchant; his son-in-law, Richard\n Baylor (1803-1862); Richard's sons, Robert Payne Baylor\n (1840-1872), Richard Baylor (1849-1914), and Henry\n Latan\u0026#38914;aylor (1853-1930); and grandson Richard\n (1883-1953)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is devoted almost entirely to records of\n the acquisition of land by the Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Virginia, and the subsequent development and use\n of these lands for agricultural purposes. The land and farming\n records span several generations over three centuries, but\n have been divided by generation where appropriate.\n Consequently, records concerning \"Kinloch\" in Essex County, or\n \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County, for instance, will\n appear under several different headings. Researchers should\n read this description and the guide which follows thoroughly\n before embarking on an examination of these papers in order to\n be aware of the several locations of related records. The\n summary description highlights some of the most important\n aspects of the collection, while the guide provides a\n thorough, though not exhaustive, listing of materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe earliest records in the collection are primarily land\n records of the Baylor, Payne and Waring families, including an\n opinion of the celebrated attorney Benjamin Watkins Leigh\n (1781-1849) concerning the estate of Robert Payne Waring\n (1746-1799). For a full listing, see guide. Also of interest\n is a larger ledger kept by merchant Mordecai Booth\n (ca.1703-1775) in Yorktown, 1746-1752, which includes\n information on the ship \"Mermaid\". Other early family members\n for whom a few records are available in this collection\n include Robert Baylor, father of Richard Baylor (1803-1862),\n and William Waring, a Revolutionary War officer and uncle of\n Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Payne Waring (1775-1844) is the first major figure\n for whom substantial material exists in this collection.\n Waring's diaries generally concern planting, harvesting, and\n weather, although random references are found to religion and\n his church activities. The diaries are bound with copies of\n David Richardson's Virginia \u0026amp; Carolina Almanac for the\n appropriate years. Among his correspondence is one\n particularly interesting letter from Episcopal clergyman\n Stephen Higginson Tyng (1800-1855). Waring's accounts cover\n personal expenses and plantation operations; one account book,\n 1815-1818, appears to concern the operation of a mercantile\n firm with Bevin Dandridge Pitts (d.1860?). Among the collected\n land records are materials tracing the title to \"Port Micou,\"\n (including legal opinions of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and John\n Tyler [folder 3] and a tract called simply \"William Taylor's\n Place\" (later \"Cavanaugh's\"), a part of the Port Micou-Kinloch\n consolidated tract in later years. For a summary of the title\n histories to Call Number Waring's various tracts see the notes\n of Richard Baylor in the folder marked \"estate materials\" (Box\n 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Payne Waring (d.1838), son of the above, died young,\n and his father handled many matters regarding his estate. For\n \"Glencairn,\" the younger Waring's residence in Essex County,\n see the deed in Box 3 filed with the father's miscellaneous\n land records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Baylor (1803-1862) purchased the \"Kinloch\" estate\n and built his mansion there in the 1840s. For the design and\n construction of the home see his correspondence with Robert\n Cary Long (1810-1849), Baltimore architect, and the folder on\n \"Kinloch\" in Box 6, which includes architectural drawings.\n Baylor purchased the \"Sandy Point\" estate in Charles City\n County from Robert Buckner Bolling (1805-1881) in the 1850s\n and his cousin Thomas Gregory Baylor (1815-1864) served there\n several years as manager. Again, see correspondence and the\n appropriate folders in Box 6. Other important correspondents\n include Thomas Gregory Baylor (1837-1890), U. S. ordnance\n officer at Fortress Monroe, Va., and Robert Selden Garnett\n (1789-1840), sending a printed message concerning Bevin\n Dandridge Pitts and Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-\n 1887). Many letters from neighbors and acquaintances concern\n the purchase and welfare of Negro slaves; these are\n supplemented by a folder in Box 6 covering slave\n purchases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, in which\n Baylor was a stockholder, include correspondence of officers\n with Baylor, stock certificates, reports, and other records.\n Materials concerning agricultural societies include an address\n by Richard Baylor as president of one such local unit (the\n Agricultural Society of Essex County?) and membership\n certificates for himself and family in the Virginia State\n Agricultural Society. Box 6 also includes a photocopy of the\n St. Anne's Parish vestry minute book, 1787-1857, kept in part\n by Baylor as secretary. Estate materials include legal\n opinions of Arthur Alexander Morson (1801-1864), records\n concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, and guardian\n accounts for minor children of Richard Baylor kept by Robert\n Payne Baylor (1840-1872).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials relating to William Balor (1805-1895) consist of\n diplomas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Payne Baylor's correspondence includes lengthy\n exchanges with Robert William Baylor (b.1841) concerning saw\n mill operations at \"Sandy Point,\" and Richard Walke\n (1840-1901) concerning the estate of Richard Baylor. Most of\n Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence, accounts, bonds and\n miscellany concern farming operations at \"Greenfield,\"\n \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" \"Port Tobago\" (\"Port Tobacco\") in\n Essex County, and \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County. They\n include records of the sale to or confiscation by Confederate\n Officials of agricultural produce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Baylor (1849-1914), brother of the above, had\n extensive correspondence with his younger brother Henry\n Latan\u0026amp;#39392;Baylor (1853-1930) as farm manager at\n \"Kinloch\" and owner of \"Edenetta\" in Essex County, his son\n Richard Baylor (1883-1953), lawyer Richard Walke, and Henry\n Waring, as farm manager at \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County.\n Most of his papers also relate to farm operations and\n management, including laborers contracts, wage records,\n blacksmiths' accounts and account books kept by Alexander\n Tunstall Brooke (1855-1927) at \"Marl Bank,\" Essex County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1920 \"Kinloch\" was sold. Materials concerning the sale\n may be found in the \"estate\" folder of Isabella Thorburn\n (McIntosh) Baylor, wife of Richard Baylor (1849-1914), in Box\n 21. Among Henry Latan\u0026amp;#39392;Baylor's papers are records\n of a lawsuit instituted in Essex County Circuit Court in 1921\n to establish title to the \"Kinloch\" estate. Then follow\n folders of a few items each for Richard Baylor's sisters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Baylor (1883-1953) is the last major figure\n represented in the collection. After the sale of \"Kinloch,\" he\n continued agricultural operations at Marl Bank Farms, near\n Iraville. His account books include payroll information for\n workers at \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" and \"Port Micou.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso included are miscellaneous family materials, including\n correspondence, legal records, newspaper clippings,\n genealogical materials, and printed materials.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection is devoted almost entirely to records of\n the acquisition of land by the Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Virginia, and the subsequent development and use\n of these lands for agricultural purposes. The land and farming\n records span several generations over three centuries, but\n have been divided by generation where appropriate.\n Consequently, records concerning \"Kinloch\" in Essex County, or\n \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County, for instance, will\n appear under several different headings. Researchers should\n read this description and the guide which follows thoroughly\n before embarking on an examination of these papers in order to\n be aware of the several locations of related records. The\n summary description highlights some of the most important\n aspects of the collection, while the guide provides a\n thorough, though not exhaustive, listing of materials.","The earliest records in the collection are primarily land\n records of the Baylor, Payne and Waring families, including an\n opinion of the celebrated attorney Benjamin Watkins Leigh\n (1781-1849) concerning the estate of Robert Payne Waring\n (1746-1799). For a full listing, see guide. Also of interest\n is a larger ledger kept by merchant Mordecai Booth\n (ca.1703-1775) in Yorktown, 1746-1752, which includes\n information on the ship \"Mermaid\". Other early family members\n for whom a few records are available in this collection\n include Robert Baylor, father of Richard Baylor (1803-1862),\n and William Waring, a Revolutionary War officer and uncle of\n Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844).","Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) is the first major figure\n for whom substantial material exists in this collection.\n Waring's diaries generally concern planting, harvesting, and\n weather, although random references are found to religion and\n his church activities. The diaries are bound with copies of\n David Richardson's Virginia \u0026 Carolina Almanac for the\n appropriate years. Among his correspondence is one\n particularly interesting letter from Episcopal clergyman\n Stephen Higginson Tyng (1800-1855). Waring's accounts cover\n personal expenses and plantation operations; one account book,\n 1815-1818, appears to concern the operation of a mercantile\n firm with Bevin Dandridge Pitts (d.1860?). Among the collected\n land records are materials tracing the title to \"Port Micou,\"\n (including legal opinions of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and John\n Tyler [folder 3] and a tract called simply \"William Taylor's\n Place\" (later \"Cavanaugh's\"), a part of the Port Micou-Kinloch\n consolidated tract in later years. For a summary of the title\n histories to Call Number Waring's various tracts see the notes\n of Richard Baylor in the folder marked \"estate materials\" (Box\n 3)","Robert Payne Waring (d.1838), son of the above, died young,\n and his father handled many matters regarding his estate. For\n \"Glencairn,\" the younger Waring's residence in Essex County,\n see the deed in Box 3 filed with the father's miscellaneous\n land records.","Richard Baylor (1803-1862) purchased the \"Kinloch\" estate\n and built his mansion there in the 1840s. For the design and\n construction of the home see his correspondence with Robert\n Cary Long (1810-1849), Baltimore architect, and the folder on\n \"Kinloch\" in Box 6, which includes architectural drawings.\n Baylor purchased the \"Sandy Point\" estate in Charles City\n County from Robert Buckner Bolling (1805-1881) in the 1850s\n and his cousin Thomas Gregory Baylor (1815-1864) served there\n several years as manager. Again, see correspondence and the\n appropriate folders in Box 6. Other important correspondents\n include Thomas Gregory Baylor (1837-1890), U. S. ordnance\n officer at Fortress Monroe, Va., and Robert Selden Garnett\n (1789-1840), sending a printed message concerning Bevin\n Dandridge Pitts and Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-\n 1887). Many letters from neighbors and acquaintances concern\n the purchase and welfare of Negro slaves; these are\n supplemented by a folder in Box 6 covering slave\n purchases.","Materials of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, in which\n Baylor was a stockholder, include correspondence of officers\n with Baylor, stock certificates, reports, and other records.\n Materials concerning agricultural societies include an address\n by Richard Baylor as president of one such local unit (the\n Agricultural Society of Essex County?) and membership\n certificates for himself and family in the Virginia State\n Agricultural Society. Box 6 also includes a photocopy of the\n St. Anne's Parish vestry minute book, 1787-1857, kept in part\n by Baylor as secretary. Estate materials include legal\n opinions of Arthur Alexander Morson (1801-1864), records\n concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, and guardian\n accounts for minor children of Richard Baylor kept by Robert\n Payne Baylor (1840-1872).","Materials relating to William Balor (1805-1895) consist of\n diplomas.","Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence includes lengthy\n exchanges with Robert William Baylor (b.1841) concerning saw\n mill operations at \"Sandy Point,\" and Richard Walke\n (1840-1901) concerning the estate of Richard Baylor. Most of\n Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence, accounts, bonds and\n miscellany concern farming operations at \"Greenfield,\"\n \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" \"Port Tobago\" (\"Port Tobacco\") in\n Essex County, and \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County. They\n include records of the sale to or confiscation by Confederate\n Officials of agricultural produce.","Richard Baylor (1849-1914), brother of the above, had\n extensive correspondence with his younger brother Henry\n Latan\u0026#39392;Baylor (1853-1930) as farm manager at\n \"Kinloch\" and owner of \"Edenetta\" in Essex County, his son\n Richard Baylor (1883-1953), lawyer Richard Walke, and Henry\n Waring, as farm manager at \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County.\n Most of his papers also relate to farm operations and\n management, including laborers contracts, wage records,\n blacksmiths' accounts and account books kept by Alexander\n Tunstall Brooke (1855-1927) at \"Marl Bank,\" Essex County.","In 1920 \"Kinloch\" was sold. Materials concerning the sale\n may be found in the \"estate\" folder of Isabella Thorburn\n (McIntosh) Baylor, wife of Richard Baylor (1849-1914), in Box\n 21. Among Henry Latan\u0026#39392;Baylor's papers are records\n of a lawsuit instituted in Essex County Circuit Court in 1921\n to establish title to the \"Kinloch\" estate. Then follow\n folders of a few items each for Richard Baylor's sisters.","Richard Baylor (1883-1953) is the last major figure\n represented in the collection. After the sale of \"Kinloch,\" he\n continued agricultural operations at Marl Bank Farms, near\n Iraville. His account books include payroll information for\n workers at \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" and \"Port Micou.\"","Also included are miscellaneous family materials, including\n correspondence, legal records, newspaper clippings,\n genealogical materials, and printed materials."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eEarly materials concern Robert\n Baylor, Robert Payne Waring (1746-1799), and William Waring.\n The collection consists chiefly of the papers of Robert Payne\n Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and \"Kinloch,\" Essex County,\n Va., including diaries, correspondence, financial and land\n records and miscellany. Also included are correspondence,\n financial records, commonplace books, land and plantation\n records (concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, Va.),\n records of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, and miscellany\n of Robert's son-in-law Richard Baylor (1803-1862) of\n \"Kinloch,\" Essex County, Va. The collection contains letters\n amounts of material concerning other family members, including\n correspondence, accounts, and farm management records of\n Richard Baylor (1849-1914), Richard Baylor (1883-1953), and\n Robert Payne Baylor (1840-1872).\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Early materials concern Robert\n Baylor, Robert Payne Waring (1746-1799), and William Waring.\n The collection consists chiefly of the papers of Robert Payne\n Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and \"Kinloch,\" Essex County,\n Va., including diaries, correspondence, financial and land\n records and miscellany. Also included are correspondence,\n financial records, commonplace books, land and plantation\n records (concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, Va.),\n records of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, and miscellany\n of Robert's son-in-law Richard Baylor (1803-1862) of\n \"Kinloch,\" Essex County, Va. The collection contains letters\n amounts of material concerning other family members, including\n correspondence, accounts, and farm management records of\n Richard Baylor (1849-1914), Richard Baylor (1883-1953), and\n Robert Payne Baylor (1840-1872)."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":40,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00008","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00008","_root_":"vihi_vih00008","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00008","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00008.xml","title_ssm":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"title_tesim":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B3445 e FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B3445 e FA2","Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962","Agriculture.","Baylor family.","Baylor, Henry Latane, 1853- 1930.","Baylor, Richard, 1803- 1862.","Baylor, Richard, 1849-1914.","Baylor, Richard, 1883- 1953.","Batlor, Robert Payne, 1840-1872.","Edenetta (Essex County, Va.)","Essex County (Va.) -- History.","Farm management.","Kinloch (Essex County, Va.)","Old Dominion Steamboat Company.","Plantation life -- Virginia.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Charles City\n County.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Essex County.","Sandy Point (Charles City County, Va.)","Steamboat lines -- Virginia.","Waring, Robert Payne, 1775-1844.","Waring family.","3,000 (ca.) items.","The papers of the Baylor Family are arranged into nineteen\n series by individual and further subdivided by material type\n where necessary.","Baylor and Waring families of Essex County, Va. Represented\n are Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and\n \"Kinloch,\" planter and merchant; his son-in-law, Richard\n Baylor (1803-1862); Richard's sons, Robert Payne Baylor\n (1840-1872), Richard Baylor (1849-1914), and Henry\n Latan\u0026#38914;aylor (1853-1930); and grandson Richard\n (1883-1953).","This collection is devoted almost entirely to records of\n the acquisition of land by the Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Virginia, and the subsequent development and use\n of these lands for agricultural purposes. The land and farming\n records span several generations over three centuries, but\n have been divided by generation where appropriate.\n Consequently, records concerning \"Kinloch\" in Essex County, or\n \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County, for instance, will\n appear under several different headings. Researchers should\n read this description and the guide which follows thoroughly\n before embarking on an examination of these papers in order to\n be aware of the several locations of related records. The\n summary description highlights some of the most important\n aspects of the collection, while the guide provides a\n thorough, though not exhaustive, listing of materials.","The earliest records in the collection are primarily land\n records of the Baylor, Payne and Waring families, including an\n opinion of the celebrated attorney Benjamin Watkins Leigh\n (1781-1849) concerning the estate of Robert Payne Waring\n (1746-1799). For a full listing, see guide. Also of interest\n is a larger ledger kept by merchant Mordecai Booth\n (ca.1703-1775) in Yorktown, 1746-1752, which includes\n information on the ship \"Mermaid\". Other early family members\n for whom a few records are available in this collection\n include Robert Baylor, father of Richard Baylor (1803-1862),\n and William Waring, a Revolutionary War officer and uncle of\n Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844).","Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) is the first major figure\n for whom substantial material exists in this collection.\n Waring's diaries generally concern planting, harvesting, and\n weather, although random references are found to religion and\n his church activities. The diaries are bound with copies of\n David Richardson's Virginia \u0026 Carolina Almanac for the\n appropriate years. Among his correspondence is one\n particularly interesting letter from Episcopal clergyman\n Stephen Higginson Tyng (1800-1855). Waring's accounts cover\n personal expenses and plantation operations; one account book,\n 1815-1818, appears to concern the operation of a mercantile\n firm with Bevin Dandridge Pitts (d.1860?). Among the collected\n land records are materials tracing the title to \"Port Micou,\"\n (including legal opinions of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and John\n Tyler [folder 3] and a tract called simply \"William Taylor's\n Place\" (later \"Cavanaugh's\"), a part of the Port Micou-Kinloch\n consolidated tract in later years. For a summary of the title\n histories to Call Number Waring's various tracts see the notes\n of Richard Baylor in the folder marked \"estate materials\" (Box\n 3)","Robert Payne Waring (d.1838), son of the above, died young,\n and his father handled many matters regarding his estate. For\n \"Glencairn,\" the younger Waring's residence in Essex County,\n see the deed in Box 3 filed with the father's miscellaneous\n land records.","Richard Baylor (1803-1862) purchased the \"Kinloch\" estate\n and built his mansion there in the 1840s. For the design and\n construction of the home see his correspondence with Robert\n Cary Long (1810-1849), Baltimore architect, and the folder on\n \"Kinloch\" in Box 6, which includes architectural drawings.\n Baylor purchased the \"Sandy Point\" estate in Charles City\n County from Robert Buckner Bolling (1805-1881) in the 1850s\n and his cousin Thomas Gregory Baylor (1815-1864) served there\n several years as manager. Again, see correspondence and the\n appropriate folders in Box 6. Other important correspondents\n include Thomas Gregory Baylor (1837-1890), U. S. ordnance\n officer at Fortress Monroe, Va., and Robert Selden Garnett\n (1789-1840), sending a printed message concerning Bevin\n Dandridge Pitts and Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-\n 1887). Many letters from neighbors and acquaintances concern\n the purchase and welfare of Negro slaves; these are\n supplemented by a folder in Box 6 covering slave\n purchases.","Materials of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, in which\n Baylor was a stockholder, include correspondence of officers\n with Baylor, stock certificates, reports, and other records.\n Materials concerning agricultural societies include an address\n by Richard Baylor as president of one such local unit (the\n Agricultural Society of Essex County?) and membership\n certificates for himself and family in the Virginia State\n Agricultural Society. Box 6 also includes a photocopy of the\n St. Anne's Parish vestry minute book, 1787-1857, kept in part\n by Baylor as secretary. Estate materials include legal\n opinions of Arthur Alexander Morson (1801-1864), records\n concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, and guardian\n accounts for minor children of Richard Baylor kept by Robert\n Payne Baylor (1840-1872).","Materials relating to William Balor (1805-1895) consist of\n diplomas.","Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence includes lengthy\n exchanges with Robert William Baylor (b.1841) concerning saw\n mill operations at \"Sandy Point,\" and Richard Walke\n (1840-1901) concerning the estate of Richard Baylor. Most of\n Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence, accounts, bonds and\n miscellany concern farming operations at \"Greenfield,\"\n \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" \"Port Tobago\" (\"Port Tobacco\") in\n Essex County, and \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County. They\n include records of the sale to or confiscation by Confederate\n Officials of agricultural produce.","Richard Baylor (1849-1914), brother of the above, had\n extensive correspondence with his younger brother Henry\n Latan\u0026#39392;Baylor (1853-1930) as farm manager at\n \"Kinloch\" and owner of \"Edenetta\" in Essex County, his son\n Richard Baylor (1883-1953), lawyer Richard Walke, and Henry\n Waring, as farm manager at \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County.\n Most of his papers also relate to farm operations and\n management, including laborers contracts, wage records,\n blacksmiths' accounts and account books kept by Alexander\n Tunstall Brooke (1855-1927) at \"Marl Bank,\" Essex County.","In 1920 \"Kinloch\" was sold. Materials concerning the sale\n may be found in the \"estate\" folder of Isabella Thorburn\n (McIntosh) Baylor, wife of Richard Baylor (1849-1914), in Box\n 21. Among Henry Latan\u0026#39392;Baylor's papers are records\n of a lawsuit instituted in Essex County Circuit Court in 1921\n to establish title to the \"Kinloch\" estate. Then follow\n folders of a few items each for Richard Baylor's sisters.","Richard Baylor (1883-1953) is the last major figure\n represented in the collection. After the sale of \"Kinloch,\" he\n continued agricultural operations at Marl Bank Farms, near\n Iraville. His account books include payroll information for\n workers at \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" and \"Port Micou.\"","Also included are miscellaneous family materials, including\n correspondence, legal records, newspaper clippings,\n genealogical materials, and printed materials.","Early materials concern Robert\n Baylor, Robert Payne Waring (1746-1799), and William Waring.\n The collection consists chiefly of the papers of Robert Payne\n Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and \"Kinloch,\" Essex County,\n Va., including diaries, correspondence, financial and land\n records and miscellany. Also included are correspondence,\n financial records, commonplace books, land and plantation\n records (concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, Va.),\n records of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, and miscellany\n of Robert's son-in-law Richard Baylor (1803-1862) of\n \"Kinloch,\" Essex County, Va. The collection contains letters\n amounts of material concerning other family members, including\n correspondence, accounts, and farm management records of\n Richard Baylor (1849-1914), Richard Baylor (1883-1953), and\n Robert Payne Baylor (1840-1872).","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B3445 e FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"collection_title_tesim":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"collection_ssim":["Baylor Family Papers, \n \n 1662-1962"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Va."],"creator_ssim":["Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Va."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposited by Mrs. Wythe Davis Bowe, Jr., Chance, Va., in\n 1982 and 1983. Accessioned 22 June 1984. Title to the\n collection transferred to Mrs. Isabella B. Hite, Loretta,\n Va., and deposit confirmed, 11 December 1997."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture.","Baylor family.","Baylor, Henry Latane, 1853- 1930.","Baylor, Richard, 1803- 1862.","Baylor, Richard, 1849-1914.","Baylor, Richard, 1883- 1953.","Batlor, Robert Payne, 1840-1872.","Edenetta (Essex County, Va.)","Essex County (Va.) -- History.","Farm management.","Kinloch (Essex County, Va.)","Old Dominion Steamboat Company.","Plantation life -- Virginia.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Charles City\n County.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Essex County.","Sandy Point (Charles City County, Va.)","Steamboat lines -- Virginia.","Waring, Robert Payne, 1775-1844.","Waring family."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture.","Baylor family.","Baylor, Henry Latane, 1853- 1930.","Baylor, Richard, 1803- 1862.","Baylor, Richard, 1849-1914.","Baylor, Richard, 1883- 1953.","Batlor, Robert Payne, 1840-1872.","Edenetta (Essex County, Va.)","Essex County (Va.) -- History.","Farm management.","Kinloch (Essex County, Va.)","Old Dominion Steamboat Company.","Plantation life -- Virginia.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Charles City\n County.","Plantations -- Virginia -- Essex County.","Sandy Point (Charles City County, Va.)","Steamboat lines -- Virginia.","Waring, Robert Payne, 1775-1844.","Waring family."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3,000 (ca.) items."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of the Baylor Family are arranged into nineteen\n series by individual and further subdivided by material type\n where necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of the Baylor Family are arranged into nineteen\n series by individual and further subdivided by material type\n where necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBaylor and Waring families of Essex County, Va. Represented\n are Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and\n \"Kinloch,\" planter and merchant; his son-in-law, Richard\n Baylor (1803-1862); Richard's sons, Robert Payne Baylor\n (1840-1872), Richard Baylor (1849-1914), and Henry\n Latan\u0026amp;#38914;aylor (1853-1930); and grandson Richard\n (1883-1953).\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Baylor and Waring families of Essex County, Va. Represented\n are Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and\n \"Kinloch,\" planter and merchant; his son-in-law, Richard\n Baylor (1803-1862); Richard's sons, Robert Payne Baylor\n (1840-1872), Richard Baylor (1849-1914), and Henry\n Latan\u0026#38914;aylor (1853-1930); and grandson Richard\n (1883-1953)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is devoted almost entirely to records of\n the acquisition of land by the Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Virginia, and the subsequent development and use\n of these lands for agricultural purposes. The land and farming\n records span several generations over three centuries, but\n have been divided by generation where appropriate.\n Consequently, records concerning \"Kinloch\" in Essex County, or\n \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County, for instance, will\n appear under several different headings. Researchers should\n read this description and the guide which follows thoroughly\n before embarking on an examination of these papers in order to\n be aware of the several locations of related records. The\n summary description highlights some of the most important\n aspects of the collection, while the guide provides a\n thorough, though not exhaustive, listing of materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe earliest records in the collection are primarily land\n records of the Baylor, Payne and Waring families, including an\n opinion of the celebrated attorney Benjamin Watkins Leigh\n (1781-1849) concerning the estate of Robert Payne Waring\n (1746-1799). For a full listing, see guide. Also of interest\n is a larger ledger kept by merchant Mordecai Booth\n (ca.1703-1775) in Yorktown, 1746-1752, which includes\n information on the ship \"Mermaid\". Other early family members\n for whom a few records are available in this collection\n include Robert Baylor, father of Richard Baylor (1803-1862),\n and William Waring, a Revolutionary War officer and uncle of\n Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Payne Waring (1775-1844) is the first major figure\n for whom substantial material exists in this collection.\n Waring's diaries generally concern planting, harvesting, and\n weather, although random references are found to religion and\n his church activities. The diaries are bound with copies of\n David Richardson's Virginia \u0026amp; Carolina Almanac for the\n appropriate years. Among his correspondence is one\n particularly interesting letter from Episcopal clergyman\n Stephen Higginson Tyng (1800-1855). Waring's accounts cover\n personal expenses and plantation operations; one account book,\n 1815-1818, appears to concern the operation of a mercantile\n firm with Bevin Dandridge Pitts (d.1860?). Among the collected\n land records are materials tracing the title to \"Port Micou,\"\n (including legal opinions of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and John\n Tyler [folder 3] and a tract called simply \"William Taylor's\n Place\" (later \"Cavanaugh's\"), a part of the Port Micou-Kinloch\n consolidated tract in later years. For a summary of the title\n histories to Call Number Waring's various tracts see the notes\n of Richard Baylor in the folder marked \"estate materials\" (Box\n 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Payne Waring (d.1838), son of the above, died young,\n and his father handled many matters regarding his estate. For\n \"Glencairn,\" the younger Waring's residence in Essex County,\n see the deed in Box 3 filed with the father's miscellaneous\n land records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Baylor (1803-1862) purchased the \"Kinloch\" estate\n and built his mansion there in the 1840s. For the design and\n construction of the home see his correspondence with Robert\n Cary Long (1810-1849), Baltimore architect, and the folder on\n \"Kinloch\" in Box 6, which includes architectural drawings.\n Baylor purchased the \"Sandy Point\" estate in Charles City\n County from Robert Buckner Bolling (1805-1881) in the 1850s\n and his cousin Thomas Gregory Baylor (1815-1864) served there\n several years as manager. Again, see correspondence and the\n appropriate folders in Box 6. Other important correspondents\n include Thomas Gregory Baylor (1837-1890), U. S. ordnance\n officer at Fortress Monroe, Va., and Robert Selden Garnett\n (1789-1840), sending a printed message concerning Bevin\n Dandridge Pitts and Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-\n 1887). Many letters from neighbors and acquaintances concern\n the purchase and welfare of Negro slaves; these are\n supplemented by a folder in Box 6 covering slave\n purchases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, in which\n Baylor was a stockholder, include correspondence of officers\n with Baylor, stock certificates, reports, and other records.\n Materials concerning agricultural societies include an address\n by Richard Baylor as president of one such local unit (the\n Agricultural Society of Essex County?) and membership\n certificates for himself and family in the Virginia State\n Agricultural Society. Box 6 also includes a photocopy of the\n St. Anne's Parish vestry minute book, 1787-1857, kept in part\n by Baylor as secretary. Estate materials include legal\n opinions of Arthur Alexander Morson (1801-1864), records\n concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, and guardian\n accounts for minor children of Richard Baylor kept by Robert\n Payne Baylor (1840-1872).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials relating to William Balor (1805-1895) consist of\n diplomas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Payne Baylor's correspondence includes lengthy\n exchanges with Robert William Baylor (b.1841) concerning saw\n mill operations at \"Sandy Point,\" and Richard Walke\n (1840-1901) concerning the estate of Richard Baylor. Most of\n Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence, accounts, bonds and\n miscellany concern farming operations at \"Greenfield,\"\n \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" \"Port Tobago\" (\"Port Tobacco\") in\n Essex County, and \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County. They\n include records of the sale to or confiscation by Confederate\n Officials of agricultural produce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Baylor (1849-1914), brother of the above, had\n extensive correspondence with his younger brother Henry\n Latan\u0026amp;#39392;Baylor (1853-1930) as farm manager at\n \"Kinloch\" and owner of \"Edenetta\" in Essex County, his son\n Richard Baylor (1883-1953), lawyer Richard Walke, and Henry\n Waring, as farm manager at \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County.\n Most of his papers also relate to farm operations and\n management, including laborers contracts, wage records,\n blacksmiths' accounts and account books kept by Alexander\n Tunstall Brooke (1855-1927) at \"Marl Bank,\" Essex County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1920 \"Kinloch\" was sold. Materials concerning the sale\n may be found in the \"estate\" folder of Isabella Thorburn\n (McIntosh) Baylor, wife of Richard Baylor (1849-1914), in Box\n 21. Among Henry Latan\u0026amp;#39392;Baylor's papers are records\n of a lawsuit instituted in Essex County Circuit Court in 1921\n to establish title to the \"Kinloch\" estate. Then follow\n folders of a few items each for Richard Baylor's sisters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Baylor (1883-1953) is the last major figure\n represented in the collection. After the sale of \"Kinloch,\" he\n continued agricultural operations at Marl Bank Farms, near\n Iraville. His account books include payroll information for\n workers at \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" and \"Port Micou.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso included are miscellaneous family materials, including\n correspondence, legal records, newspaper clippings,\n genealogical materials, and printed materials.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection is devoted almost entirely to records of\n the acquisition of land by the Baylor and Waring families of\n Essex County, Virginia, and the subsequent development and use\n of these lands for agricultural purposes. The land and farming\n records span several generations over three centuries, but\n have been divided by generation where appropriate.\n Consequently, records concerning \"Kinloch\" in Essex County, or\n \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County, for instance, will\n appear under several different headings. Researchers should\n read this description and the guide which follows thoroughly\n before embarking on an examination of these papers in order to\n be aware of the several locations of related records. The\n summary description highlights some of the most important\n aspects of the collection, while the guide provides a\n thorough, though not exhaustive, listing of materials.","The earliest records in the collection are primarily land\n records of the Baylor, Payne and Waring families, including an\n opinion of the celebrated attorney Benjamin Watkins Leigh\n (1781-1849) concerning the estate of Robert Payne Waring\n (1746-1799). For a full listing, see guide. Also of interest\n is a larger ledger kept by merchant Mordecai Booth\n (ca.1703-1775) in Yorktown, 1746-1752, which includes\n information on the ship \"Mermaid\". Other early family members\n for whom a few records are available in this collection\n include Robert Baylor, father of Richard Baylor (1803-1862),\n and William Waring, a Revolutionary War officer and uncle of\n Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844).","Robert Payne Waring (1775-1844) is the first major figure\n for whom substantial material exists in this collection.\n Waring's diaries generally concern planting, harvesting, and\n weather, although random references are found to religion and\n his church activities. The diaries are bound with copies of\n David Richardson's Virginia \u0026 Carolina Almanac for the\n appropriate years. Among his correspondence is one\n particularly interesting letter from Episcopal clergyman\n Stephen Higginson Tyng (1800-1855). Waring's accounts cover\n personal expenses and plantation operations; one account book,\n 1815-1818, appears to concern the operation of a mercantile\n firm with Bevin Dandridge Pitts (d.1860?). Among the collected\n land records are materials tracing the title to \"Port Micou,\"\n (including legal opinions of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and John\n Tyler [folder 3] and a tract called simply \"William Taylor's\n Place\" (later \"Cavanaugh's\"), a part of the Port Micou-Kinloch\n consolidated tract in later years. For a summary of the title\n histories to Call Number Waring's various tracts see the notes\n of Richard Baylor in the folder marked \"estate materials\" (Box\n 3)","Robert Payne Waring (d.1838), son of the above, died young,\n and his father handled many matters regarding his estate. For\n \"Glencairn,\" the younger Waring's residence in Essex County,\n see the deed in Box 3 filed with the father's miscellaneous\n land records.","Richard Baylor (1803-1862) purchased the \"Kinloch\" estate\n and built his mansion there in the 1840s. For the design and\n construction of the home see his correspondence with Robert\n Cary Long (1810-1849), Baltimore architect, and the folder on\n \"Kinloch\" in Box 6, which includes architectural drawings.\n Baylor purchased the \"Sandy Point\" estate in Charles City\n County from Robert Buckner Bolling (1805-1881) in the 1850s\n and his cousin Thomas Gregory Baylor (1815-1864) served there\n several years as manager. Again, see correspondence and the\n appropriate folders in Box 6. Other important correspondents\n include Thomas Gregory Baylor (1837-1890), U. S. ordnance\n officer at Fortress Monroe, Va., and Robert Selden Garnett\n (1789-1840), sending a printed message concerning Bevin\n Dandridge Pitts and Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-\n 1887). Many letters from neighbors and acquaintances concern\n the purchase and welfare of Negro slaves; these are\n supplemented by a folder in Box 6 covering slave\n purchases.","Materials of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, in which\n Baylor was a stockholder, include correspondence of officers\n with Baylor, stock certificates, reports, and other records.\n Materials concerning agricultural societies include an address\n by Richard Baylor as president of one such local unit (the\n Agricultural Society of Essex County?) and membership\n certificates for himself and family in the Virginia State\n Agricultural Society. Box 6 also includes a photocopy of the\n St. Anne's Parish vestry minute book, 1787-1857, kept in part\n by Baylor as secretary. Estate materials include legal\n opinions of Arthur Alexander Morson (1801-1864), records\n concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, and guardian\n accounts for minor children of Richard Baylor kept by Robert\n Payne Baylor (1840-1872).","Materials relating to William Balor (1805-1895) consist of\n diplomas.","Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence includes lengthy\n exchanges with Robert William Baylor (b.1841) concerning saw\n mill operations at \"Sandy Point,\" and Richard Walke\n (1840-1901) concerning the estate of Richard Baylor. Most of\n Robert Payne Baylor's correspondence, accounts, bonds and\n miscellany concern farming operations at \"Greenfield,\"\n \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" \"Port Tobago\" (\"Port Tobacco\") in\n Essex County, and \"Sandy Point\" in Charles City County. They\n include records of the sale to or confiscation by Confederate\n Officials of agricultural produce.","Richard Baylor (1849-1914), brother of the above, had\n extensive correspondence with his younger brother Henry\n Latan\u0026#39392;Baylor (1853-1930) as farm manager at\n \"Kinloch\" and owner of \"Edenetta\" in Essex County, his son\n Richard Baylor (1883-1953), lawyer Richard Walke, and Henry\n Waring, as farm manager at \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County.\n Most of his papers also relate to farm operations and\n management, including laborers contracts, wage records,\n blacksmiths' accounts and account books kept by Alexander\n Tunstall Brooke (1855-1927) at \"Marl Bank,\" Essex County.","In 1920 \"Kinloch\" was sold. Materials concerning the sale\n may be found in the \"estate\" folder of Isabella Thorburn\n (McIntosh) Baylor, wife of Richard Baylor (1849-1914), in Box\n 21. Among Henry Latan\u0026#39392;Baylor's papers are records\n of a lawsuit instituted in Essex County Circuit Court in 1921\n to establish title to the \"Kinloch\" estate. Then follow\n folders of a few items each for Richard Baylor's sisters.","Richard Baylor (1883-1953) is the last major figure\n represented in the collection. After the sale of \"Kinloch,\" he\n continued agricultural operations at Marl Bank Farms, near\n Iraville. His account books include payroll information for\n workers at \"Kinloch,\" \"Marl Bank,\" and \"Port Micou.\"","Also included are miscellaneous family materials, including\n correspondence, legal records, newspaper clippings,\n genealogical materials, and printed materials."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eEarly materials concern Robert\n Baylor, Robert Payne Waring (1746-1799), and William Waring.\n The collection consists chiefly of the papers of Robert Payne\n Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and \"Kinloch,\" Essex County,\n Va., including diaries, correspondence, financial and land\n records and miscellany. Also included are correspondence,\n financial records, commonplace books, land and plantation\n records (concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, Va.),\n records of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, and miscellany\n of Robert's son-in-law Richard Baylor (1803-1862) of\n \"Kinloch,\" Essex County, Va. The collection contains letters\n amounts of material concerning other family members, including\n correspondence, accounts, and farm management records of\n Richard Baylor (1849-1914), Richard Baylor (1883-1953), and\n Robert Payne Baylor (1840-1872).\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Early materials concern Robert\n Baylor, Robert Payne Waring (1746-1799), and William Waring.\n The collection consists chiefly of the papers of Robert Payne\n Waring (1775-1844) of \"Edenetta\" and \"Kinloch,\" Essex County,\n Va., including diaries, correspondence, financial and land\n records and miscellany. Also included are correspondence,\n financial records, commonplace books, land and plantation\n records (concerning \"Sandy Point,\" Charles City County, Va.),\n records of the Old Dominion Steamboat Company, and miscellany\n of Robert's son-in-law Richard Baylor (1803-1862) of\n \"Kinloch,\" Essex County, Va. The collection contains letters\n amounts of material concerning other family members, including\n correspondence, accounts, and farm management records of\n Richard Baylor (1849-1914), Richard Baylor (1883-1953), and\n Robert Payne Baylor (1840-1872)."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":40,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00008"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00005","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Cocke Family Papers, \n \n 1794-1981","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00005#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Thomas Lewis Preston, Elizabeth\n Randolph (Preston) Cocke, John Preston Cocke, Elizabeth\n Preston Cocke.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00005#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1794-1812, of Thomas Lewis Preston include correspondence with siblings and information on the Ann Smith Academy (for girls). 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