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Start Over Collection Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939 Date range 1854

Letters by Frances (Austin) Wright, 1849/1881 Box 2, Folder 11

29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939
  3. Series 1: Letters, 1765/1939
  4. Subseries 1.1: Letters to, from, or about the Austin Family, 1800/1888
  5. Frances (Austin) Wright, 1847/1881

Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1854/1855 Box 3, Folder 28

15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939
  3. Series 1: Letters, 1765/1939
  4. Subseries 1.2: Letters to, from, or about the Twyman Family, 1811/1937
  5. Iverson L. Twyman, 1829/1864

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1851/1869 Box 6, Folder 53

16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939
  3. Series 1: Letters, 1765/1939
  4. Subseries 1.2: Letters to, from, or about the Twyman Family, 1811/1937
  5. Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1848/1891

Letters by others to Frances (Austin) Wright, 1847/1871 Box 2, Folder 13

18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired."] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939
  3. Series 1: Letters, 1765/1939
  4. Subseries 1.1: Letters to, from, or about the Austin Family, 1800/1888
  5. Frances (Austin) Wright, 1847/1881

Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1854 Box 4, Folder 44

15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson & Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad).

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939
  3. Series 1: Letters, 1765/1939
  4. Subseries 1.2: Letters to, from, or about the Twyman Family, 1811/1937
  5. Iverson L. Twyman, 1829/1864

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