John Ingles Letters

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], John Ingles Letters, Ms1993-008, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Abstract:
Three partial letters (copies only) written by John Ingles, a 19th-century resident of Virginia's New River Valley.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], John Ingles Letters, Ms1993-008, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains three partial letters (copies only) written by John Ingles, a 19th-century resident of Virginia's New River Valley. (The handwriting in the letters does not seem to match, so the three letters may have been written by different individuals.) In the first letter, Ingles mentions a recent New Year's ball in Christiansburg, Virginia, and having driven a sled to Christiansburg from Newbern. Writing to an unidentified brother in the second letter, Ingles expresses concern over John Hale. In a third letter, signed "John Ingles Sr.," the writer recalls the many times that he heard his parents recount the family's experiences "in their first settling on the western watters [sic] of Virginia," and he promises to share these stories to the best of his recollection, "that a [record?] of them may be preserved."

Biographical / historical:

With little contextual information, it is difficult to identify the writer(s) of these letters. The letter signed "John Ingles Sr." seems likely to to have been written by Colonel John Ingles (son of settlers William and Mary Draper Ingles), born in Augusta County, Virginia, on June 18, 1766; died in Radford, Virginia, July 16, 1836. Another letter may have been written by his son, Dr. John Ingles, born in 1805; died in 1849.

Acquisition information:
The John Ingles Letters were acquired by Special Collections and University Archives prior to 1994.
Processing information:

The processing and description of the John Ingles Letters commenced and was completed in October, 2023.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard