White family papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

This collection is minimally processed and open for research.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16507, White family papers, Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:
.12 Cubic Feet 3 legal sized folders
Creator:
White, Harriet, White, Elvira Terrell, and White, Alice
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 16507, White family papers, Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains correspondence, documents, and ephemera belonging to the White family of Beaver Dam, Hanover County, Virginia. The bulk of the materials date from 1867 to 1898, and includes a document from 1854 and a few early 20th century documents. 110 letters sent to Malmon White, a farmer in Beaver Creek, as well as Harriet White, his mother, Elvira Terrell White, his wife, and Alice White, his daughter. Subject matter includes correspondence about family inheritances, some disputed inheritances, inheritance of land in Salem, Va., and vivid descriptions of farming in Kentucky. One group of 31 letters are from a relative, Edmund T. White, a tobacco farmer in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Among this group are also numerous receipts (many on the letterheads of Virginia businesses), as well as accounts, pay documents, legal documents, tax documents, and ephemera including illustrated Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Policies, and an 1875 broadsheet of Richmond Grain and Tobacco prices.

There is an 1882 document about Malmon's Confederate Army Service in which he was prisoned at Forte Delaware prison and Pointe Look Out. He was in the West Building Hopsital at Baltimore and at Fort McHenry.

Some of the letters from his wife ELvira White and daughter Alice White describe life in Virginia and fears about Diptheria.

Acquisition information:
This collection was purchased from Caroliana by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on May 4, 2021.
Physical description:
Fair
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard