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Start Over Collection Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939 Date range 1864

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 Augusta G. Twyman, 1863/1920 Box 11, Folder 121

30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).

  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. Augusta G. Twyman, 1863/1920

Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1863/1864 Box 5, Folder 49

Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); "A Methodist" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock & Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler & Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson & Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson & Co. Tredegar), Brown & Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).

  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 to J.M. Spiller, 1862/1869 Box 13, Folder 140

21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones & Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston & Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939
  3. Series 1: Letters, 1765/1939
  4. Subseries 1.4: Letters to, from, or about the Spiller Family, 1837/1889
  5. J. M. Spiller Letters, 1837/1889

Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1849/1869 Box 6, Folder 62

25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.

  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 to Thomas Austin, 1838/1870 Box 2, Folder 21

18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.

  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. Thomas Austin, 1838/1875

Miscellaneous Letters, 1860/1869 Box 14, Folder 156

28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter & Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary & Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765/1939
  3. Series 1: Letters, 1765/1939
  4. Subseries 1.5: Miscellaneous Letters, 1769/1930

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