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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Septimius Hall (1847-1926) Papers, A&amp;M 1634, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Correspondence of Septimius Hall (1847- 1926), a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1872 and a state legislator. Letters concern state politics, 1881-1886, and the Virginia Debt Commission, 1913-1916. Correspondents include: J. J. Woods, Johnson N. Camden, E. D. Talbott, &amp; W. E. Chilton. The papers include an autograph volume with signatures of the members of the State Legislature, 1881-1882.                                                                                                                                            </p><p>Added 1/19/1973 are 67 typed poems of the blind poet, John S. Hall (1845-1923), and also a biographical sketch of Hall.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041557" source="lcsh">Elections</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Poets and poetry.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Politics and government.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Virginia - Debt Commission.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia - politics.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia - Politics and government.</subject>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95042898" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85137006" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Gallaher, J. W.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Hall, John S.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Jacob, John Jeremiah.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Shutt, G.W.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Woods, J. J.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Talbott, E. D. </persname>
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