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Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884,. Papers of the Grinnan family of Brampton, Madison Co., Va. 1773 (1843-1937) 1981.

Title: Papers of the Grinnan family of Brampton, Madison Co., Va. 1773 (1843-1937) 1981.

Papers of the Grinnans and related Coalter, Bryan, Duryea, Tucker, and Glassell families center on Randolph Bryan Grinnan, Southern Presbyterian missionary to Japan, 1885-98, and pastor of churches in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Va., and to a lesser extent on his son Randolph Bryan Grinnan a University of Virginia medical student. Topics of interest in the correspondence include a biography of John Randolph of Roanoke; the War of 1812; politics in 1849 including the Whigs, tariff, loco-focos, and John C. Calhoun; secession and the Civil War; blacks; life at U. Va. in the 1870s, 80s, 1920, and 30s; life at Hampden-Sydney College in the 1870s; Pantops Academy, Charlottesville, Va. in the 1880s; missionary life in Japan in the 1880s and 90s; the Kentucky gubernatorial election of 1899; the Spanish American War; life at Randolph Macon Women's College in the 1930s; genealogy; and family matters. Passing references include cholera and yellow fever in New Orleans in the 1850s, vaccination in 1853, a visit to U. Va. by Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 1928, and the U.S. elections of 1932 and 1936. There are descriptions of Norfolk, Charlottesville and Kempsville, Va., London in 1854, Denver, Colo., Port Gibson, Miss., New York City, Ashville and Henderson, N.C., Columbia, S.C., San Francisco, New Orleans, and Louisville, Ky. Of special interest are the letters and 1864 diary of John F. Sale Co. H, 12th Virginia Infantry describing some of the bleaker sides of army life and referring to Seven Pines, Antietam (Crampton's Gap), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Also of interest are items pertaining to John Randolph of Roanoke including a copy of Dr. Francis West's account of his final illness; essays by Georgia Screven Bryan Grinnan including one regarding family servants Abram and Lucy Carter together with their marriage certificate and her will; an essay on Brampton; an Iowa land grant, 1860, signed by James Buchanan, photographs, scrapbooks, newsclippings, and the Rev. Grinnan's Japanese notebooks and diary. Among the correspondents are Judah Philip Benjamin, Corbin Braxton Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan, John Randolph Bryan, John Stewart Bryan, Joseph Bryan, John Coalter, John Esten Cooke, Noah Knowles Davis, John H. Duryea, Eudora Glassell, James MacMillan Glassell, Andrew Glassell Grinnan, Cornelia Grinnan, Daniel Grinnan, Ella Grinnan, Helen Grinnan, Lena Leete Grinnan, Martha Estelle Duryea Grinnan, Nina Stuart Grinnan, St. George Tucker Grinnan, Joseph Henry, Samuel Hopkins, John Letcher, John William Mallett, Delia Bryan Page, James Alexander Seddon, Samuel Lewis Southard, Thomas Tudor Tucker, St. George Tucker, and Charles Scott Venable.

ArchivalResource: 1,800 items.

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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1810-1883 (bulk 1858-1869).

Title: Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1810-1883 (bulk 1858-1869).

The papers contain the autograph manuscripts for "Disraeli," "To make raisins," table of contents for "The man hunter," "The winter march to Romney" (from "The life of Stonewall Jackson"), title page of "Wearing of the grey," "Une description de noces," "The scout," "A dead master, G.W.B.," "The broken mug," "Deal gently with the erring," "O, I'm a good old rebel," "So my summer's over," and "A southern scene." Ten letters, mostly to Cooke, chiefly discuss his writings, particularly "Days and nights in the Shenandoah," "Hilt to hilt," "Life of Stonewall Jackson," "My friend the colonel," "Pride of falling waters," "Stories of the Old Dominion," and "Surry of Eagle's Nest"; the Civil War, especially Stonewall Jackson, the battlefields of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gaines's Mill, Petersburg, and Richmond, and Stuart's grave; and Southern writers. They also include a letter from a military volunteer criticizing Cooke's article "Outlines from the outpost," published in "Southern Illustrated News" and a letter from Stephen Cooke to John Rogers Cooke about responsibilities of marriage. An engraving of Cooke and an example of his calligraphy are also present. The correspondents include John Rogers Cooke, Stephen Cooke, Joseph A. Hill, Fitzhugh Lee, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Jr., William Meade, Isaac Moorhead, William Thomas Poague, and S. Rohman.

ArchivalResource: 24 items.

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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Letters to Charles James Faulkner [manuscript], 1873 and 1884.

Title: Letters to Charles James Faulkner [manuscript], 1873 and 1884.

Cooke sends information on his father and his brother Philip, and notes as an aside that he is "laboring under my distressing annual attack of hayfever, which paralyzes me wellnigh, physically and mentally." In the second letter he discusses lecturing "before your Historical Society" and the use of his Virginia history in schools.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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William Gilmore Simms collection of papers, 1839]-[1869?

Title: William Gilmore Simms collection of papers 1839]-[1869?

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence written by the author.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

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Barr, Stringfellow, 1897-1982. Papers of the Virginia quarterly review [manuscript] 1920-29.

Title: Papers of the Virginia quarterly review [manuscript] 1920-29.

Correspondence and papers accumulating during the editorships of Stringfellow Barr and James Southall Wilson; including 2 letters, Robert Frost to Barr; several manuscripts for publication including "'In Ole Virginia' with Thomas Nelson Page", by James Southall Wilson; "Longfellow and the University of Virginia" by Miles George; "Dr. William H. Ruffner, Interesting Reminiscences..." by George Rand; critical reviews of "The history of the University of Virginia", by Philip Alexander Bruce, and "John Esten Cooke, Virginian", by John Owen Beaty; miscellaneous papers and writings of James Southall Wilson and correspondence concerning the Virginia. War History Commission. Correspondents include: Joseph Reid Anderson, Robert Emory Blackwell, Julian Ashby Burruss, Matty L. Cocke, John J. Egan, Harris Hart, Emilie Watts McVea, Charles Gilmore Maphis, Henry Louis Smith.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Manuscript [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Manuscript [manuscript], n.d.

Manuscript of an introduction to an [unpublished?] book on southern women during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Browne, William Hand, 1828-1912. Letter to [John Esten Cooke], 1884 February 19.

Title: Letter to [John Esten Cooke], 1884 February 19.

Browne discusses Claib[orne?], William Penn, "Virginia" by Cooke, makes a suggestion for an historical romance based on Bacon's rebellion, and mentions his history of Maryland in progress.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

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Taylor, Charles Elisha, 1842-1915. Papers of Charles Elisha Taylor, 1849-1874.

Title: Papers of Charles Elisha Taylor, 1849-1874.

Early family letters to Taylor include descriptions of travel down the Mississippi in 1854; New Orleans in 1857; a tornado in Tuskegee, Ala., in 1858; the University of Virginia in 1859-1860; a visit to the home of Longfellow; the death of his sister's baby; and advice on leading a godly life. Civil War letters from Taylor discuss life in camp; lack of religion among the troops; action near Winchester, Va., March 1862; Stonewall Jackson; Jeb Stuart; the Gettysburg Campaign including a drawing showing position of Stuart's cavalry; camp at Hamilton's Crossing; Christmas in the army, 1863; Fredericksburg, Va., a year after the battle; Charlottesville, Va. and the hospital there, Dr. Cabell, Dr. Broadus, and Mrs. Fife, in May 1864; and capture by Yankee spies near Staunton, Va. Civil War letters to Taylor from family and friends discuss the Richmond, Va., homefront including charitable work; church work with soldiers; troop movements; religious faith; city defenses; scarcity of food, fuel and goods; a yellow fever epidemic in North Carolina, 1862; blockade running; social events; war news and rumors; the Union occupation; reconstruction and the reaction of local blacks to the end of the war and freedom; and the occupation of Greenville, S.C. by the 56th New York. Post-war letters to Taylor discuss John Esten Cooke's tales of Jackson's Valley Campaign; Wake Forest College; the University of Virginia, and particularly S.A.E. fraternity; and Berlin in 1868. The collection also contains a diary of Taylor's service from April to November, 1861, and the diary, 1865, of his wife, Mary Hinton Prichard Taylor, describing Richmond, Va., during war and reconstruction. The diary also contains a secessionist song, 1863?, minutes of the Young Ladies Missionary Serving Circle of the Grace Street Baptist Church, Richmond, 1848-1853, and some accounts, 1854-1856. The collection also contains a narrative "A boy's story" by Robert Samuel Prichard regarding his experiences on a blockade runner. Miscellaneous items include clippings, school reports, University of Virginia essays and certificates, and an S.A.E. fraternity pin.

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