Alexander Brown Papers (1), 1815-1910.

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440

Summary

Creator:
Alexander Brown
Abstract:
Inventory includes the letters and business papers,1815-1910, of Alexander Brown (1843-1906), farmer, merchant and author who lived in Nelson County, Virginia.
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Inventory contains the papers of Alexander Brown, farmer, merchant and author who lived in Nelson County, Virginia. Includes correspondence relating to his books, The Genesis of the United States,The First Republic in America,The Cabells and Their Kinand New Views,and other correspondence and business papers of Brown including letters written from Australia, England, Wales and Egypt, 1867-1869. Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Charles Deane, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler.

The collection also includes papers of Mayo Cabell and ledgers of Mayo Cabell and Co., Lynchburg, Virginia and of the Lynchburg Female Seminary; accounts of "Belmont," "Benvenue," and "Norwood" plantations (in Nelson County); and genealogical material on the Brown and Cabell families.

Biographical / historical:

Born at Glenwood, Nelson County, Virginia, Alexander Brown was deafened while serving in the Confederate Army in the explosion of a powder-boat near Fort Fisher, N.C. He married Caroline Augusta Cabell and after her death, Sarah Randolph Cabell. He was the author of The Genesis of the United States,The First Republic in America,The Cabells and Their Kinand other works.

Acquisition information:
Purchased: 2,914 items, 05/06/1941. Gift: 5 items, 05/22/1944. Gift: 30 items, 05/09/1946.
Arrangement:

This inventory has been organized into ten series: 1. Correspondence of Alexander Brown; 2. Business Reciepts of Alexander Brown; 3. Business Reciepts and Papers of Various Members of the Cabell Family; 4. Papers of Mayo Cabell; 5. Papers concerning the books written by Alexander Brown; 6. Bills, Reciepts and Papers of Mayo Cabell and His Son; 7. Correspondence of Alexander Brown; 8. Miscellaneous Materials of Alexander Brown; 9. Papers of R. L. Brown, the son of Alexander Brown; 10. Page Proofs of the Books Written by Alexander Brown.

Physical description:
2,949 items.