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James River and Kanawha Company Box 15, Folder 163

25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers
  3. Series 2: James River and Kanawha Company Papers

Letters by Frances (Austin) Wright 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
  3. Series 1: Letters
  4. Subseries 1.1: Letters to, from, or about the Austin Family
  5. Frances (Austin) Wright

Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921) Box 7, Folder 65

26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Austin-Twyman Papers
  3. Series 1: Letters
  4. Subseries 1.2: Letters to, from, or about the Twyman Family
  5. Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman Box 6, Folder 54

25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.

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

Letters by others to Frances (Austin) Wright 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
  3. Series 1: Letters
  4. Subseries 1.1: Letters to, from, or about the Austin Family
  5. Frances (Austin) Wright

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