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Broadside announcement of the "Resolutions of Respect in the memory of Judge Wood Bouldin" which were passed at a "meeting of the citizens of Charlotte County, Court Day, November 6th, 1876." Broadsides for farm machinery, "Spring Hill Nursery" in Prospect, Virginia, "Greensboro Nurseries" in Greensboro, North Carolina, tobacco, chemicals, bookstores, kettles, and manure. March 1900 flyer for the Southern Historical Association, price list for plows from "Charles E. Hunter" in Richmond, Virginia; how-to cards from "A.H. Patch" of Clarksville, Tennessee, two copies of Volume II, No. 11, 1891 March 14 "Knowledge, a Weekly Magazine", reprint of "Use and Abuse of the Obstetric Forceps," and flyer with prices from tobacco to groceries for "Sublett & Cary" General Commission Merchants.

1876 article on Lord Botetourt, undated article "Bowie of Alamo Fame" and an 1896 page from "The Sun" in New York.

Concerns Grigsby Family property "Edgehill", located in Charlotte County, Virginia which Mary B. G. Galt inherited from her brother, Carrington Grigsby. Includes 1914 plat of the Charlotte County property, 1914 Deed of Trust note on the property, correspondence with potential purchasers of the property, and correspondence and legal documents on the sale of the property to L. E. Rogers, John O. Walker, and C.E. Hunter in 1916.

1809 property tax bill, and 1808 letter from Lewis Stuart of Greenbrier.

Deeds and other legal documents for property in Norfolk, Virginia, Colorado, and Florida.

Plats, deeds and related material for land in Charlotte County. Includes a 1736 survey by William Westbrook with notes on "Booker Survey"; 1793 survey for Thomas Read; Edward Fitzgerald deed to Hugh B. Grigsby; 1870 survey of the "Low Grounds of Edgehill" by Thomas F. Petters, correspondence on land bought from the Cardwell Family (1870's and 80's) and more.

1839 deed from George Garraway to Edward Fitzgerald for land on East Street; 1855 deed from Rosina Karcher to Simon S. Stubbs for property on Main Street; 1858 deed from Hugh B. Grigsby to Charles B. Duffield for property on East Street.

Report cards of Hugh Galt from Smithville High School, 1897 June 14 and 1899 February. 1899 invoices from the Episcopal Male Academy for Mrs. W. W. Galt for the expenditures of Willie Galt. Letter from Instructor Elizabeth A. Rowe, "Miss Mary C. Galt has successfully completed an elementary course in Botany," dated 1915 February.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings with notes and poems, some by William Wilson Galt, pasted into an account book. Beginning on page 100, accounts for the estate of Hugh Blair Grigsby and Mary V. Grigsby from 1885-1886. Includes loose papers of handwritten poetry, an 1887 map of Alaska, an 1890 broadside for San Salvador and Guatemala, a printed poem "A Ballad of Manila Bay" by Timothy Wilfred Oakley and other printed material.