Miller, Virginia. Papers of Leesburg, Va., families [manuscript] 1650, 1782-1926, 1961.
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Papers of Leesburg, Va., families [manuscript] 1650, 1782-1926, 1961.
The collection consists of correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the related Fendall, Harrison, Murray, Miller and Jones families. The Fendall segment contains an organization chart, 1919, for the Delaware River District. Division of Shipyard Plants. U.S. Shipping Board. Emergency Fleet Corporation. In addition to family letters the Harrison papers contain a delinquencies report book, 1895-96, from the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., an inventory of family property, 1920, Civil War reminiscences, 1908, of J.R. Beuchler, and an official diary, 1943, of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. Fighting Squadron no. 213 in the South Pacific. The Miller segment contains financial papers and correspondence between family and friends separated by the Civil War. The papers of Dr. Thomas Miller include medical class notes, annual reports of the Washington, D.C. Board of Health, autopsy reports, fee books, prescription books and visiting lists which mention many prominent Washingtonians, and detailed accounts of many cases. Among these is a description of the final illness of Pres. William Henry Harrison. Descriptions of folk cures and quack panaceas for erysipelas accompany Miller's notes on William Wilson Corcoran. Diaries of Virginia Miller describe Washington, D.C. before the Civil War and a 1909 European tour. Of interest are descriptions of Henry Clay's visit to Princeton in 1848, and a miner's letter from New South Wales in 1888. In the Murray papers are scrap-books, lectures on mechanics, and the diaries of Anna and Stirling Murray. The papers of General Walter Jones contain an account of the battle of Bladensburg and an 1816 trip to Cuba but were largely generated by his law practise including the Myra Clark Gaines case. Correspondents include Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Thomas Henry, Outerbridge Horsey, Reverdy Johnson, Charles Lee, Henry Lee, Henry Lee, Gershom Powers, Thomas Nelson Page, Edmund Pendleton, Edmund Randolph, Samuel Harrison. Smith and Bushrod Washington. There are also a few issues, 1862-64, of The falcon, a Chicago newspaper, some movie posters from the 1920s, and French, English, and U.S. music for piano, cello, violin, and flute.
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