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Poems and stories written by various members of all the families, though the writer is usually not identified. Includes "Mr. Adam Foster's Letters describing 'old times in Gloucester Co., Va'" in 1848, sent to Mary and belonging to M. L. Tabb of St. Catherine's School; poem written for Maria Greenhow of Williamsburg by Leander, fragment of text," copied by F. B. Macaulay in 1854; Romeo and Juliet (revised and improved), a story about a cat named Dolly by F. C. J.; "Female Character" by Mary F. Jones; handwritten obituary for a pet bird (1874); "popular sayings from Pope"; fragment of notes, poem on the death of "Little Lizzie"; calculation of crop rotation and profits using "The Henley Four Field System"; prose story about Lands End; note that describes "...romantic delusion that the south was inhabited exclusively by aristocrats and picturesque negroes..."; fragment of a story about a young girl at a ball; notes on Spanish and European religious and political history; page from a book with a poem entitled "Stillness," which is addressed to Bangy; recipe for "Tomatoe Catsup," and a typescript manuscript of "Cousin Martha's recollections" of Eagle Point, Lands End and other areas of Gloucester.

List of months and their flowers and meanings, 1879 April 13 love poem, paper on Algernon Sidney (paper may possibly be by Hugh Blair Grigsby), 1870 paper entitled "Education."

Scope and Contents Mary Louise Saunders Blair diary, 1856. Prudence Wallace Watkins diary, undated. Elizabeth Blair Stubb's travel diary for trip from New Orleans to San Francisco, 1891.

Scope and Contents Inventory of jewelry owned by the Stubbs Family with provenance noted, prepared by Elizabeth Blair Stubbs. Christmas List with names and checkmarks, Christmas 1931. List of flowers with note "List of flowers...GrandMary." List of people with notation "Golden Wedding, 1874, J.E.S. and heading "List of distant when issued" with dates beside names. List of people's names, Huntsville, entitled "List of People, Spring Hill August 1852, Mr. James Saunders." List of books by shelves and tables entitled "Books in Library." List of names in alphabetical order, some with check marks.

Scope and Contents Writings, 1866, 1868, 1878 and undated, of unknown/unidentified people