<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" findaidstatus="completed" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-VaAlLHS" url="https://alexlibraryva.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/140"/><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper>Thomas Swann Correspondence (MS410) <num>MS410</num></titleproper><author>Gregory Pierce</author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://alexandria.libnet.info/images/tile/alexandria/alexandria-logo.png" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><p><date>2019-01-24</date></p><address><addressline>717 Queen Street</addressline><addressline>Alexandria, VA 22314</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 703-746-1791</addressline><addressline>lhsc@alexlibraryva.org</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="http://alexlibraryva.org/lhsc" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="http://alexlibraryva.org/lhsc" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2024-08-08 11:01:06 +0000</date>.</creation><langusage>Description is written in: <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English, Latin script</language>.</langusage><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <unittitle>Thomas Swann Correspondence (MS410)</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname role="aut" rules="dacs" source="local">Swann, Thomas William, 1818-1895</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname role="aut" rules="dacs" source="local">Swann, Helen Mary (Chapman), 1817-1895</persname>
    </origination>
    <unitid>MS410</unitid>
    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">.04 Cubic Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">1 folder</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1848-01-12/1857-08-08" type="inclusive">1848-1857</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <head>Content Description</head>
<p>The Thomas Swann Correspondence is a small collection of letters mostly written by Helen Swann to her husband Thomas.  A single letter from Thomas to Helen also lives with the collection, as well as a handful of letters by other authors.  Helen's cousin Henrietta Alexander is included as an author of a letter, as well as a P. W. White, who writes to Helen's cousin John Chapman regarding a list of named slaves.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of J. C. Phillip Spottswood, December 1, 2018</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <head>Arrangement</head>
<p>The collection exists within a single folder inside an assorted collections box.  The letters are arranged first by subject/author, then chronologically.</p>  </arrangement>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>[Item identification], Thomas Swann Correspondence, MS410, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Related Materials</head>
<p><extref xlink:href="https://alexlibraryva.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/141" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">Chapman-Southerland Collection (MS409)</extref><br/>
<extref xlink:href="https://alxndria.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/home/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:159796/ada" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">A History of Chapman and Alexander Families (1946)</extref></p>  </relatedmaterial>
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    <head>Digital Materials</head>
<p><a href="https://alexlibrary.access.preservica.com/archive/sdb%3Acollection|177fbe8a-006d-429e-87ac-e0a5d2b4c1dd/">Click to view digital materials in this collection</a></p>  </otherfindaid>
  <controlaccess>
    <subject source="lcsh">Letters.</subject>
  </controlaccess>
  <dsc><c id="aspace_a39365d70071ddd2ee1c2327f492e088" level="file"><did><unittitle>Letters to Thomas Swann</unittitle><unitid>MS410-AB04-01</unitid><origination label="Creator"><persname role="aut" rules="dacs" source="local">Swann, Thomas William, 1818-1895</persname></origination><origination label="Creator"><persname role="aut" rules="dacs" source="local">Swann, Helen Mary (Chapman), 1817-1895</persname></origination><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1848-01-12/1857-08-08" type="inclusive">1848-1857</unitdate><langmaterial><language langcode="eng">English</language>.</langmaterial><container altrender="Legal Size" id="aspace_577c34f0192e8a911beb4fcfaf89c239" label="Text" type="Assorted Box">04</container><container id="aspace_b6cf05dcf879c08c176afb5e670f8a16" parent="aspace_577c34f0192e8a911beb4fcfaf89c239" type="folder">410-1</container></did><otherfindaid id="aspace_59302561afab2d8b6715b4a1581ae63d"><head>Digital Materials</head><p><a href="https://alexlibrary.access.preservica.com/archive/sdb%3Acollection|fb006826-10a4-4449-8a61-2ff0982e3469/">Click to view digital materials in this collection</a></p></otherfindaid><controlaccess><subject source="lcsh">Slavery -- United States</subject><subject source="lcsh">Letters.</subject></controlaccess></c></dsc>
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