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Re: papers regarding the house on Boush Street, Norfolk, Virginia; divided into two folders for ease of handling; between the two folders are specifications for the house's rebuilding and inventories of possessions. Also included are detailed accounts about the house.

Miscellaneous papers; receipts for taxes; bills; report on C. Whittle for William and Mary College; letter to Whittle from secretary of Board of Trustees of "Chesapeake Female College" arbitration of dispute between Benjamin E. Payne and James R. Hubard.

Investments, six bond/stock certificates including stock certificates for Dismal Swamp Canal Co. and certificates for bank stock and a Confederate bond; 1 cheque; one list of stocks and bonds.

One document (1842) signed by President John Tyler; one document (1830) signed by President Andrew Jackson (lacks Jackson's surname); four other miscellaneous documents; two in English and two in Spanish. Includes appointments, 1830 and 1842, of Conway Whittle II as Collector of Customs for Norfolk and Portsmouth signed by Andrew Jackson and John Tyler; and instructions to Whittle from Treasury Department concerning tariff on steek and iron. See also Norfolk--Customs House papers.

Concerning Conway's appointment as Collector of the Port under Andrew Jackson's Administration; Cobbett's writings on the U.S., Mexico, and Cuba; O'Connell agitating the Irish to revolt; ineffectiveness to date of emancipation; general living conditions; personal experiences working on The Manchester Guardian; British account of James Monroe's death; politics; friendship with William Cobbett; death of James' father; position at Guinness brewery; reflections on the Civil War and effects on the South; trip into Germany and the Netherlands; retrospective (1869) view of the Reform Bill of 1832; Catholic movement for "Freedom of Education" exchange of photographs; family news; death notice enclosed (James Whittle, 1801-1874) 12 autograph letters signed; Printed Death Notice.

Concerning naval matters; Vera Cruz; Paraguay expedition; Moncure Robinson; need to strengthen Navy and U.S. interests in Central America, Cuba, etc; death of his brother, John S. Whittle; action of the naval board; approach of the Civil War and trying to join Confederate Navy; Matthew Maury; Episcopal Church affairs; other family news. Includes letter of Elizabeth J. Sinclair Whittle. Folder 1 of 2.

Son of William Conway Whittle, Jr.'s post Civil War career; what his children are doing; transatlantic cable. Several incomplete. Folder 2 of 2.

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